Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea behind the giveaway was that the new channels would be used to provide high-definition television (HDTV), which features razor-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound, as well as a host of other digital services. Broadcasters argued that without getting the channels for free, they could never afford to develop HDTV. And, they emphasized, it was only a loan: by 2006, the rollout of digital TV would be complete, and they would give back their old analog channel space. Fair enough, perhaps, if seeing Dan Rather's pores clearly is worth $70 billion to the nation...
...suit their systems to local conditions. "It's high time," he told TIME, "that white people left Africa alone and started minding their own business." Likewise Africans must "liberate themselves from themselves," divesting their lands of the postcolonial generation of malefactors and incompetents. He has given up the idea of Western salvation, says Constance Freeman, director of African Studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, in favor of Africans "relying on themselves...
...from Popper that Soros gained his personal philosophy of reflexivity. It boils down to the sensible if not entirely original idea that people always act on the basis of imperfect knowledge or understanding; that while they may seek the truth--in the financial markets, law or everyday life--they'll never quite reach it, because the very act of looking distorts the picture. He says he has used this theory to try "to turn the disparate elements of my existence into a coherent whole...
When the cosmonauts turned again to Spektr's hatch, they had no idea what they would find behind it. In the wake of the accident, officials feared the lab would be filled with waving wires, glass debris and even globules of blood collected from the crew for medical tests. But when Vinogradov popped his head inside and peered around with a flashlight, he found that the place looked surprisingly undisturbed. The darkened instrument panels were covered with a layer of sparkly frost, and a cloud of white crystals floated about like fireflies. These were thought to be the remains...
...going very strong." But beyond her fashion statement--a flower-child revision, with pastel jewels on her nose and forehead--she is hard-pressed to cite any examples. "We have Phish, now that the Dead are gone," she ventures. "And raves. It's very much the same idea as a be-in or love-in to go to a rave...