Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produces three columns a week. The first step: hours of vacant staring over a typewriter. Says Skow, who has dabbled with humorous writing himself in 23 years as a reviewer and journalist: "When I stare off into space, all I see are overdue phone bills. Baker gets a funny idea three times a week, while I get one about every four years. He is astounding...
...creative people spent six weeks and $10,000 to alter a conventional car, and by utilizing available components achieved fuel consumption of 57.2 to 80 m.p.g. Meanwhile, in another story, you describe how carmakers are throwing away valuable time and resources on developing a dashboard that talks. The idea that the industry cannot develop a more efficient car is foolish. Even the Moodymobile can accelerate faster than the mossbacks in Detroit...
...know the changes I've made since being here. I want him to know who he is killing-the real person, not some idea he has in his head about me." Said Spenkelink's anguished mother Lois, 67, of the Governor: "He doesn't even know my son. How can he kill my son, my only...
...budget (a vote that was rescinded the next day). Five Democratic Congressmen publicly announced they would not support Carter's renomination and charged that he had "abandoned the promises and hopes of his own campaign." Four of them announced support for the drafting of Senator Edward Kennedy, an idea that Kennedy is doing increasingly little to discourage. A poll released last week showed him beating Carter by a shocking 70% to 20% in a head-on confrontation in California...
...idea of revamping the tax laws to bolster investment has lately captured the imagination of political leaders. And the plan that is attracting the most sup port will speed up the slow, cumbersome system of tax depreciation. At present, companies are allowed to take deductions from their income to make up for the depreciation of their aging factories and equipment. Those deductions vary according to the expected life of the plant or gear. For example, railroad equipment can be depreciated over 40 years, tractors over three years. Faster depreciation would reduce taxes and thus increase the capital available for investment...