Word: ideas
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...human nature, the pursuit of rational self-interest is the moral ideal whose political corollary is a free society in which the individual rights are inviolate. In short, the individual lectures as well as the series as a whole were intended to present to the Harvard community some idea of the scope and content of Ayn Rand's historic intellectual achievements...
McCarthy said that when fire-fighters arrived, they found a smoking plastic bag in the room but have no idea how the fire started...
...comes to a negotiation." Raines and Bowles wanted to show more flexibility early, on the theory that it might help soften up the opposition. A few days after the election Raines even went so far as to approach G.O.P. strategist Ken Duberstein and House Speaker Newt Gingrich with the idea of writing a budget together--a prospect the Republicans found laughable after fighting a bruising campaign over that very issue. "I don't think it was being naive," Raines contends. "I think it was setting a tone...
...ways to do this, and last week Yeltsin advisers began launching trial balloons. The first was proposed on Itogi, the ponderous Sunday-night television program that is often believed to reflect the views of Yeltsin's chief of staff, Anatoli Chubais. Itogi reported that Kremlin insiders were discussing the idea of a constitutional amendment to allow Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin to serve as Acting President not simply for three months but for the almost four years left in Yeltsin's term. That might give the stodgy PM time to develop into a marketable candidate. A second idea floating around parliament...
...first, to safeguard investors' principal against the ravages of rising prices; second, to cut the cost of financing America's $4 trillion national debt. Wall Street too is happy: bond dealers get a new plaything in the bargain. Gushes Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers: "This is a win-win idea: better for citizens, better for government, better for financial markets...