Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mansfield said he believes the United States should "retain a good part of the idea of affirmative action" but added that he prefers moderate preferences to government-imposed quotas...
...success is by no means assured. Some executives say privately that the plan would have to grow to twice its present size--112,000 enrollees--in order to spread costs over a wide enough base to stay viable. That means attracting more companies, and even in Minnesota the idea is too radical to prompt more than a kind of nervous interest. Then too, Minneapolis-St. Paul is somewhat unique because of its close-knit business community and well-educated work force. So far, the only feeler from out of state about establishing a similar plan has come from Des Moines...
...lower than B.H.C.A.G. had anticipated. But these estimates are basically guesses. If they are wrong, the companies as self-insurers will pay the difference between actual costs and premium revenues out of their own pockets. That will not bankrupt Pillsbury or Honeywell, but it might sour them on the idea...
DeGeneres is certainly not averse to the idea that the new plot twist is organic rather than desperate: "It made sense the character was gay--not that I ever started with that intention." At ABC and Disney, the idea of Ellen Morgan's coming out had been discussed off and on as a possible fix for the show almost since its inception. So executives were receptive, if cautious, when DeGeneres and the show's producers first approached them last summer about the possibility. "It's not a no-brainer," understates Tarses, but tentative permission was granted for the show...
...that. I thought, "If I were a guy I'd go out with her." And then I thought, "Well, I don't want to be a guy, really." So I went, "Oh, well," and just went on with my life. My first gay experience was literally someone else's idea--I was freaked out even by the thought of it. And I thought that was one experience and it was just her, and I started dating guys again, thinking, "Well, I just need to meet the right one." Never could, really...