Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that generally fail, to the detriment of the Treasury. In 1971 legislators became alarmed at the growing trade deficit--imports that exceeded exports--and the threat to American jobs. So Congress came up with a program, the Domestic International Sales Corporation, that deferred corporate taxes on export income. The idea was to encourage companies to keep jobs here...
...idea. Heck, maybe you can even execute the idea...
...University of Southern California, isn't completely happy with his lot, though. He wishes his technique of building with glass and steel had been more fully embraced. "It should have taken off, especially in California," he says, partly blaming the building industry for its resistance to the idea. "They're the perfect houses for earthquakes because they hold together and they're sturdy, like shorter high-rises...
...Good idea. Like Allen himself, Tony brings clear vision but no reformist zeal to the business of chronicling celebrity life. It's just something he, like a dwindling few of his fellow citizens, is trying to live with (and in his case, make a living from) as rationally as possible. He guesses that Robin's self-consciousness, her sense that she doesn't belong in the same room with the rich and famous, will play well on TV. She's as addled as anyone in her audience would be in fast company, so of course viewers identify with...
...idea. They can smell his desperation. It invites their casual contempt. When a movie star (Melanie Griffith) grants him a sexual favor, it's one of those once-in-a-lifetime benisons queens sometimes bestow on a lucky serf, not the beginning of a relationship. When a supermodel (Charlize Theron) catches a glimpse of his only glamorous asset, a classic Aston Martin sports car, she thinks its owner may do as an escort for a night on the town, but her attention keeps wandering...