Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal was indefinitely shelved because, in part, of its unpopularity with Harvard students. A poll by the Harvard Undergraduate Council reported that 62 per cent of the respondents opposed the idea...
After six years in Paris studying cello and savoring the food, Norman Goss decided he would rather take a flyer in the restaurant business than starve as a musician. He chose the name Stuft Shirt both as a satiric jab at his neighbors and to convey the idea of a well-filled belly. There are now three Stuft Shirt restaurants in Southern California -best and newest a Venetian-style palace at Newport Beach...
Later, Pontiac expects to put out its own new sporty car. It was originally dubbed the Banshee, but then someone had the bright idea of looking up the meaning of the word. The definition read: "In Gaelic folklore, a supernatural being whose wailing was supposed to foretell a death." Back to the christening font for that...
Under this exchange, the New York Federal Reserve Bank extended to Britain a line of credit that stood at $750 million this summer, before the pound withstood its most severe assault from speculators (the idea is that Britain would do the same for the U.S. if the dollar were to run into trouble). Of the total, the Bank of England had to call for $300 million. Meanwhile, other central banks had provided Britain with another $ 1 billion...
Since the first meeting in May 1963, Kennedy Round negotiations have moved mostly in circles. The idea, advanced by President Kennedy, was to put through a big round robin of tariff reductions. But before they could present their own tariff-cutting package to the rest of the non-Communist nations involved, the Common Market countries had to settle all sorts of arguments among themselves. And as the Common Market kept calling time out, a deadline grew ever closer: the authority granted by Congress to the President of the U.S. to chop tariffs by 50% expires on June...