Word: idea
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...Government Shutdown'? I was surprised that you included an article by Newt Gingrich in your cover package [March 1]. Isn't the idea of Gingrich giving advice on bipartisan cooperation akin to asking the fox for advice on how to guard the henhouse? He is the king of noncooperation and partisanship. There are people on both sides of the aisle who can offer advice about bipartisanship and have at least a modicum of credibility. Sandy Stanley muscatine, Iowa...
...Khafif sounds proprietary about something with Trump's name on it, it's because the project was his idea in the first place. When the Colombian-born developer came up with the plans for the building in 2005, amid Panama City's real-estate explosion, he realized it was too big to be financed without a major-league brand name. Khafif knew that Trump had been in Panama in 2003 for the Miss Universe Pageant, so he asked a mutual friend to set up a meeting in New York. "I know the guy has an ego and likes pretty things...
...most people, the idea of writing a senior thesis is so daunting that they don’t even bother; for others, it’s a chance to show their community what all of their hard work and research has come down to. But for Anna K. Barnett-Hart ’09, who is currently a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley, her senior thesis resulted not only with honors in economics at graduation but also with an acknowledgment in author Michael Lewis’s latest book, “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine...
Still, Diaz-Cayeros thinks the CELAC idea may have arrived at a propitious moment. "What's different this time is the threat Latin American economies face from China," he says. "They have to figure out how to better insert themselves in the world community." More regional economic integration is essential. Susan Segal, president and CEO of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas in New York City, says, "We don't know yet if we should be taking [CELAC] seriously." But she too points to fledgling "cross-Latin investment" as a key trend that the organization could further. "Even...
...also, it was the scale of it. It was just the fact that they were talking about collecting all of this information - and this really was the idea - collecting everything that they could get their hands...