Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just possible that historians may look back some day and decide that the best idea to come out of Jimmy Carter's first term was-of all things - Transportation Secretary Brock Adams' challenge: "Reinvent...
...idea has been in the back shop for years. What Adams did was bring it up in the right place at the right time. It is now policy...
...give it to them straight? thought Adams. He had just arrived at a critical conclusion. The transportation policy of the previous decade had been based on the flawed idea of persuading Americans to get out of their cars and use other forms of transportation. The data before him showed it could not be done short of a threat of extinction. Also, his probings of the auto industry convinced him that there was more research in sales and promotion than in the mechanics of making cars. "Go back to 'cut and try' engineering," he told his astonished audience...
Detroit has enough trouble without being caught scoffing at an idea that could change the nature of the city's underlying industry...
...Harvard, as in Washington, a random sampling of administrators reveals not everybody agrees that a Department of Education is such a bad idea. Even Bok, who is seen as a leader among University presidents who have voiced opposition to the department-creating legislation, says that "reasonable men" might come out on different sides of the issue after weighing the advantages and disadvantages of creating a department...