Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though West Germany accepts the idea of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Brandt said last week, it will not sign any pact that inhibits its development of a peaceful atomic technology. And while the new government will honor ex-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's agreement to contribute to the upkeep of U.S. troops ($675 million a year), it wants to cut that sum sharply after the agreement expires in June. Though Bonn privately expects the withdrawal of perhaps three American divisions this year, Brandt, as Foreign Minister of an energetic new regime, was not about to concede anything before...
Skiers regard them with the same sort of scorn that dedicated sailing enthusiasts have for stinkpots. Among schussboomers there is the idea that snowmobiling is for sissies. Says a Canadian doctor: "When I go out in the winter I exercise myself, not a machine." Many resorts now ban them from the regular ski runs because hot-rodders lacerate the slopes, menace skiers, and make too much noise. Says Tom Corcoran, 33, who owns New Hampshire's new Waterville Valley resort: "People go skiing to get away from cities and enjoy the quiet; the last thing they want...
...Administration may have quietly laid to rest its oft-proclaimed, oft-abused 3.2% wage-price "guideposts" last month, but it did not entirely give up the idea of restraint. As far as prices go, warned the President's Council of Economic Advisers, there are still plenty of areas "about which guidepost questions might be raised." The questions, and a flock of the old familiar Administration telegrams, flew last week in one of those areas: gasoline prices...
...Johnson letter idea appealed to many students in the audience and, as the debate continued, about 30 gathered in a corner of the Student Union to designate a drafting committee. Four members wrote separate letters, and a fifth student spliced them together--creating, as one put it, a "horrible hodgepodge...
Thomas stayed only briefly, but he played a crucial role, according to Miss Erdmann, in "helping us with the idea of the tone." He told the students, according to another participant, that he would die thinking his life spent for nothing, if, at that time, the U.S. were still in Vietnam...