Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book deal. She had, in fact, at the urging of her agent John Brockman, dashed off an e-mail message that Brockman told her could, in the hands of the right publisher, be worth a cool $2 million. But after meeting with her editors on Tuesday, Kolata quashed any idea of writing a book. "I did not plan a book," she says. "I did not write anything that anyone could remotely consider to be a proposal, and any idea was immediately withdrawn...
...such a crazy idea that none of the researchers in Folkman's lab wanted anything to do with it. Finally one of them, Dr. Michael O'Reilly, agreed to take on the project. Together he and Folkman eventually determined that various segments of a naturally occurring protein called plasminogen seemed to do the trick. They called the collection of molecular fragments angiostatin and found that each version of the compound differed slightly in its ability to stop a tumor from growing...
...Abbott and Costello, for example. And Michael Richards' portrayal of Kramer is a frank homage to The Honeymooners' Art Carney. But Seinfeld's fans have always been rather smug when they declare that the show is "about nothing" and that its prime directive is "No hugging. No learning." The idea seems to be that to find humor in trivia and to avoid sentiment is very happening, now, today...
...election, the AFL-CIO spent $35 million nationally, most of it in ways that favored Democrats. Now the G.O.P., which tried and failed two years ago to get a bill nearly identical to Prop. 226 through Congress, is hoping that 226 will propel the dues-permission idea across the U.S. At least eight states are considering the same kind of ballot measure. Supporters of 226 say it's a fairness issue. Why should union members have to finance campaigns for candidates or ideas that the workers may not support? In recent years some California unions have backed the controversial initiative...
...idea was getting nowhere until help came from Norquist's group and J. Patrick Rooney, a conservative Indiana insurance executive who had launched a privately funded school-voucher experiment in Indianapolis. Together they provided most of the financing, nearly half a million dollars, for the petition drive that put 226 on the ballot. Then California Governor Pete Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school...