Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secondhand and sometimes makeshift equipment, and winding their own electric motors when they could not buy the ones they needed, they developed a miniaturized slow-speed tape recorder that could be worn by a man to record his electrocardiogram for ten hours. It was they who had the ingenious idea of playing back the electrocardiographic complexes on an oscilloscope screen like a moving picture. This enabled the physician to scan ten hours of data in ten minutes, and made it feasible to utilize the great volume of electrocardiographic information that their recorder obtains. Holter has become a vice chancellor...
Bringing the idea of federal aid a step further, Walter Heller, former chief of the Council of Economic Advisers, has suggested filling the states' chief need-money-by rebating a percentage of federal income taxes under a formula that would give the poorer states a bigger share. Many experts challenge this plan, insisting that it would be better to cut federal taxes and let the states do their own collecting. Says former Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, a onetime governor of North Carolina: "A plan like Heller's would come nearer to sapping the remaining initiative of the states...
...sometimes find, after making a speech," he said, "that my central point or idea has been ignored and I find myself embroiled in a silly controversy over some minor observation which could as well have been left out of the speech. I think you have responsibility for conveying the essence of messages and not just those parts which lend themselves to controversy." As for the brothel remark, said Fulbright, it was intended to illustrate the "general proposition that rich and strong nations have a powerful impact on small and weak ones. Frankly, it never occurred to me that a brief...
...slashing foreign aid, though rebellious congressional leaders are talking of reducing it by $1 billion. As for a head tax on foreign-bound U.S. tourists, who will contribute about $2.5 billion to the payments deficit this year, compared to $1.8 billion last year, Fowler said that such an idea has been "laid quietly to rest for the time being." In all, the Administration plans to continue relying on its "voluntary" restraints, which have proved to be ineffective and which put practically all the burden of reducing overseas spending on business and individual citizens, and practically none on Government...
...Allied Chemical Corp., which has been toying with the idea for four years, is now seriously negotiating with a private Indian firm, Andhra Sugars, to finance a $35 million plant in Andhra...