Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When we were on the road in September andOctober [the people we talked to] felt thefinancial aid program was attractive andreinforced the idea that Harvard had a financialaid program that was competitive with many,"Fitzsimmons said...
Their financial calculations make sense. Producers know that big stars and unprecedented explosions are a winning combination. We are all inherently intrigued by the idea of watching Bruce Willis save the Earth from a deadly asteroid, or Ferris Bueller take on a 50-ton lizard...
...Rutgers University. Also at the I.E.E.E., Henn met Clinton Andrews--now an assistant professor for urban planning at Rutgers, but at the time on the faculty at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Last year Andrews and Henn co-chaired a conference at Princeton. "The idea was to inspire Jersey's K-12 educators to embrace an integrative approach to learning and move away from structuring class time into segregated disciplines," explains Andrews. "Another goal was to influence policymakers to integrate environmental issues into the core curriculum of public schools." That conference led to a three...
...Gwynne, a former banker and TIME's Austin bureau chief, had been investigating private banking, traveling around the U.S. and to Switzerland to track down money trails, so he rushed back to Austin to begin writing. "This story evolved in a perfect way," he says. "We researched a good idea for months, and when a news peg finally came, we were able to seize on it, offering readers the latest information along with a rich context in which...
...conceived, according to the DreamWorks founding trio, during the initial burst of excitement of inventing the company in 1994. In a meeting at Spielberg's house, the talk turned to animation. Spielberg said he wanted to do a project with the grandeur of The Ten Commandments. "What a great idea," Geffen said...