Word: idea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third day, the whole conference moved into Yamani's hotel suite for a marathon twelve-hour session. While the Saudi minister padded back and forth serving English tea, and his guests munched on Algerian dates, an idea was floated to lift Arabian light oil to $26 as a new floor price, but fix a ceiling at $30. This was rejected by Libya, Algeria and Iran...
...that idea is being challenged by, among others, Physicists Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Pakistani Abdus Salam, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics for showing an underlying unity of two of nature's four basic forces: electromagnetism and the so-called weak force, which governs some forms of radioactive decay within the atomic nucleus. In carrying their work further to relate these two forces to a third -the strong force (which binds the atomic nucleus together)-they and other researchers determined that such unity requires a net loss of baryons when certain...
David H.C. Read, 69, Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York. "The worst sin is dullness," says Read, a transplanted Scotsman and British army chaplain who is never dull. Still, he disapproves of the whole idea of "princes of the pulpit," and he deplores the fact that people go to church to hear a celebrated preacher rather than to worship. But if there is any one prince of the Protestant pulpit these days, it is Read...
...Until The Rose, he turned down every film role that was offered, waiting for the one that would let her shine brightest. People laughed at the time, but on her European tour last year, he even demanded that she be paid in gold. He was turned down, but the idea was far from laughable. Gold has since more than doubled in value...
Early in 1952 the Du Mont Television Network needed a low-budget show to throw into the graveyard slot opposite "Mr. Television," Milton Berle. Their unlikely idea: talks by a Roman Catholic prelate. An overnight sensation, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living eventually pulled nearly 20 million viewers in the weekly ratings war. A 1953 poll of journalists proclaimed Sheen TV's Man of the Year...