Word: idea
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...Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Project on Negotiations in Employment Relations Deborah M. Kolb called Cobb's Internet initiative "a wonderful idea" that will make the PON run more efficiently. Kolb served as PON executive director from...
...also been developing a long-term strategy for the Balkans: a mini-Marshall Plan to promote lasting stability through economic rebuilding. She pitched the idea--contained in a long memo prepared by the State Department's policy planners and European experts--at a White House meeting. The President invited her to send him what is called a "night note," a proposal that bypasses the slow-moving nsc bureaucracy and goes straight to the Oval Office. That was important, since Albright does not enjoy the privilege of previous Secretaries to meet often with the President alone...
...hard to believe that just over a year ago, when Armstrong laid out his strategy to his fellow executives, betting big on cable was a radical idea. Then again, that was a time before eBay was a publicly traded company and skeptics insisted Yahoo was overvalued at $24 a share. Since then, the Internet has grown by hyperleaps, and cable-broadband looks likely to be the tool that makes it grow even faster...
...relatives of organ donors $300 toward funeral expenses. It would be the first jurisdiction in the country to reward organ donation. Indeed, it might even be violating a 1984 federal law that declares organs a national resource not subject to compensation. Already there are voices opposing the very idea of pricing a kidney...
...objection is that Pennsylvania's idea will disproportionately affect the poor. The rich, it is argued, will not be moved by a $300 reward; it will be the poor who will succumb to the incentive and provide organs...