Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah's goal, however, was to make Iran a modern, Westernized state, and if that meant equal rights for women, so be it. He aimed to make Iran one of the world's five great powers, along with the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Japan. The idea might have seemed laughable initially but, as Western demand for oil kept climbing, the Shah's ambitions began to look more plausible. The Shah, whose country pumped 7% of the non-Communist world's oil imports, led the way in the first huge price increase, from...
Your Money Matters by Donald Moffitt. Even some six-digit corporate executives have no idea how they will bankroll their retirement, so Moffitt has collected his Wall Street Journal columns on personal finance into a $4.95 paperback for them as well as more modest money earners. Moffitt writes with cheekiness; the section on how to buy directors' liability insurance begins: "So you were dozing in your Eames chair when the other directors approved that 'commission' to His Austere Majesty the Grand Serene Slob of Lower Slobbovia?" Six pages on cutting home heating costs are invaluable, if only...
Martha C. Lyman, director of financial aid, said yesterday that although she supports the idea of providing scholarship services, she doubts the reputation of some of them...
Rumor has it that the ETS originally considered developing a code by which students could call up, give a password and then be told their score, obscured in a mystical series of numbers and/or letters. But that idea was rejected as too technical...
...Louise baked a few cookies as a favor to a storeowner friend who sold the whole batch within two days. That gave Sid an idea. Operating out of one kitchen, Sid, Louise, Jeff and David started Grandma's and began to sell their wares to small shop owners in the area. Within two years they were selling cookies to stores throughout the country. Now the Vermont business employs a staff of five, and has a $200,000 volume of business...