Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Someone on the first information tour I gave asked me what was so great about this whole idea. And while I do not write for the guidebook, I feel that it amounts to the fact that while your friends will have similar interests and opinions as you, it is those students whom often you don't know or know informally whose opinions incite you to formulate arguments and to pin-point your own beliefs...
When Bob Dole said last week that the government should get out of the housing business and give poor people vouchers instead, you might have thought this idea was on its way to becoming bipartisan reality. After all, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros had already proposed that the nation's 3 million public-housing residents be given vouchers to spend where they please on rent. And how could Dole's fellow free-market Republicans object to housing vouchers--a system that relies on the market, not government, to determine how and where poor people live, a system first...
...Larry didn't get it," explains Farzad Dibachi. Larry is Larry Ellison, CEO of Silicon Valley powerhouse Oracle Corp., which has been struggling to sell the world on its vision of a $500 computer. "It" is the idea underlying Diba, the Valley start-up Dibachi launched last winter after quitting his job at Oracle. And the idea is IDEA, the Interactive Digital Electronic Appliance, a line of cheap devices that do just one thing instead of the limitless tasks expected of a PC. For example, the Diba Kitchen Idea, above, holds thousands of recipes on a CD-ROM. Diba wants...
...Family leave. A nice idea; parents should not have to choose between a job and a sick child. But unlike in Europe, where government helps subsidize the cost, here it was simply imposed on employers...
Recently, the chair of the Committee on Ethnic Studies recommended that the administration make the current dean's committee into a standing committee of the Faculty. That's a good idea...