Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week top figures of the D.N.C. insisted they had no idea where Huang was. "We contact him through his attorney," said committee spokeswoman Amy Weiss-Tobe. An exasperated Judge Lamberth finally issued a court order demanding that Huang show up at the office this week to receive the subpoena. Huang promised to comply. Advice to the Clinton campaign: a very big speed bump ahead, though the impact may not be felt until the second term...
Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, however, protested that the idea was far too complicated. He was the most persistent and forceful advocate of the idea that finally won: a 15% across-the-board cut in income tax rates over six years. The idea was so simple that a button touting it could say simply 15%--whereas, Abraham scoffed, a button for the other plan would have to read AGI-FICA, and even that would need detailed explication...
This vision from around the technological bend has, in various forms, preoccupied the automotive industry for decades. The basic idea is always the same. Proponents imagine a morning someday in the next century when you and your smart car pull out of the garage, drive down local roads in the conventional manner and head for the "smartway." There you will merge into the auto lanes, activate your robo-driver and relax. The car will hurtle along at high speed--perhaps up to 140 m.p.h.--only a few feet from the cars in front and behind but protected by collision-avoidance...
...very profitable for a home brew supply shop, and the brewery is a good idea," Wendy Pzena says. "We just break even, though, on the brew-on-premises equipment because of the costs of labor and ingredients...
Some students said the more rigid enforcement of biking regulations was a good idea. "I think it's a good idea for safety reasons," said Akilesh Palanisamy '98. "Cyclists tend to be...reckless...