Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some kind of gas rationing may become necessary, but the Administration bungled its proposal and Congress shortsightedly rejected the whole idea. Carter made two serious errors. First, in order to get his new tax on windfall oil profits, he railed so vehemently against oil-company "ripoffs" that he fanned public suspicion that the shortage is a hoax-though the Administration knows quite well it is not. Then the Administration presented a poorly drafted stand-by rationing plan; and when that came under fire, which should have been anticipated, it scrambled madly to find some kind of compromise that could...
...State House had a grounds committee that took care of the building," explains former University of Connecticut President Homer Babbidge Jr. "Since most of the neighbors are now in skyscrapers, we could not ask them to come out and clean up. So I brought up the idea of asking everyone who had a window view of the grounds to pay a voluntary...
...unhappy about the timing of Deng Xiaoping's (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) forthcoming visit to Washington in late January. They did not like the idea of Brezhnev preceding Deng and very likely being eclipsed by him. Therefore Gromyko might have been using these eleventh-hour wrangles over third-rate issues as a pretext to postpone the Carter-Brezhnev summit...
Benjamin said the junior Faculty members would not take a position on the committee proposals until Rosovsky outlined the specifies involved. "We greet such an idea with extreme skepticism," he added...
...agree with the idea that diversity and intellectual challenge should be the hallmarks of a university, that all opinions should flourish on their merits, and that all ethnic, racial, and other groups should be tolerated. But these ideals do not justify blindness to South African racism. Furthermore, intellectual diversity does not preclude a boycott. A boycott effectively presents a viewpoint, opens up discussion, and permits the examination of divestiture on its own merits...