Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosalynn whispered that to him one night, they should take away the pillow. If he found the notion in that special library in his little study, they ought to have a book burning. The single six-year term is an idea that appeals to troubled politicians-Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Connally. Most of them never muttered it until they got into some difficulty. Carter may be in political peril, but he need not abandon the Constitution...
Despite the junta's apparent willingness to support a constitutional government, some of its members harbor lingering reservations. The junta says it seeks a "dialogue" with Roldós, and wants him to "clarify his political philosophy" before he takes office in August. The idea, explains Rear Admiral Victor Hugo Garcés, the Interior Minister, is to help the new President "not to go to any extremes." If the dialogue does not satisfy the generals, Ecuador's return to democracy could prove turbulent...
...that the companies just played fast and loose in interpreting the rules. One mind-boggling example of the old-new complexity: a now revised regulation stating that all petroleum pumped from a field that had even one well drilled before 1973 must be classified as being old oil. The idea was to stop companies from getting new-oil prices by drilling new wells into old reservoirs after 1973. The companies are accused of, among other things, ignoring this provision whenever they actually struck new oil in an old-oil field. Instead of selling it as old oil, they are said...
This deeply troubles John Hanley, a soap supersalesman who rode the Tide to the top at Procter & Gamble and in 1972 floated over to become chief executive of one of its major chemical suppliers, Monsanto Co. Now Hanley, 57, is hard-selling a provocative idea: that technology could leap ahead if two basic but often distant institutions would join forces. Those two are U.S. universities and U.S. corporations...
...earth. People ought to be walking around all day, all through their waking hours, calling to each other in endless wonderment, talking of nothing except that cell." Thomas' pyrotechnic conclusion demands the accompaniment of Bach, with the volume turned way up: "No one has the ghost of an idea how this works, and nothing else in life can ever be so puzzling. If anyone does succeed in explaining it, within my lifetime, I will charter a skywriting airplane, maybe a whole fleet of them, and send them aloft to write one great exclamation point after another, around the whole...