Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NASA engineers studied a plan to send a McDonnell Douglas F-15, America's hottest jet fighter, into a computer-guided supersonic climb to about 80,000 feet and then blast Skylab out of the sky with a non-nuclear rocket. This idea was dropped when the scientists concluded that Skylab would merely be blown into more pieces scattered over a wider area, increasing rather than reducing the danger of damage on earth...
...will not have to buy the planets from anyone. The main expense will be getting to them. And now there has appeared on the horizon an idea that may ultimately make space transport so cheap that if a million people a day want to commute to the moon, they...
...Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, experimenters have also shown that certain mouth and vaginal odors change regularly during the menstrual cycle. That raises the possibility that odor tests may one day help develop a new contraceptive, an idea supported by the monkey studies of Monell Primatologist Gisela Epple. She found that the dominant male and dominant female in each social group spend much of their time smearing their scent around the cages. Surprisingly, subdominant females do not get pregnant when they mate with the top male. Epple suspects that a scent signal from the dominant female suppresses the fertility...
Eager to expand his business, Christopher met in 1974 with Lloyd's Broker Peter Nottage and persuasively proposed an idea for a computer-leasing policy that the underwriters eventually accepted. Under it, if corporations or government agencies broke a lease after the obligatory noncancellation period, Lloyd's underwriters would pay the leasing company any balance due to the bank on the purchase price of the computer. With this magical policy, Christopher found it easy to persuade banks to lend him the huge sums that he needed to buy computers. The company or agency that leased the equipment agreed...
...facts of a particular case. The court is without an identity, and at times, unpredictable. To the press, the court's decisions on the First Amendment may have seemed all too predictable. But other groups-civil libertarians, police, women, business people -came to the court without any sure idea of where they stand...