Word: ideas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time was ripe a year ago, when an interagency review unanimously advised recognition. But it was a congressional election year, and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who handles the emotional MIA issue, vetoed the idea. On this go-round, still well before the 1996 presidential primaries, Lake signed on. Clinton simply checked a box on a decision memo and the deal was made. A senior Administration official says, "I don't have a sense that the President agonized over this...
Just as corporate executives across America were digesting the idea that a major U.S. company could be infiltrated at the highest level by the FBI another tantalizing aspect to the case emerged. Howard Buffett, ADM vice president for public affairs and son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, had quit a week earlier, apparently distressed about the investigation and the company's handling...
...physicists' excitement comes partly from the intellectual pleasure of seeing an important scientific loose end tied up at last. When Einstein first suggested the idea of BEC back in the 1920s, building on the work of the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, quantum mechanics was a new and controversial field. Among its stranger assertions -- long since confirmed -- was that atoms and other elementary particles can also be thought of as waves. The waves are really waves of probability, which describe where an atom is most likely to be at a given moment (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle dictates that...
...other states since 1990, resulting in four deaths. The infection is caused by the Ehrlichia bacterium, a distant cousin of the microbe responsible for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Fortunately, Quinn had gone to specialists who recognized the infection and cured him with the antibiotic doxycycline. "I had no idea it could be fatal," he says. "Looking back, I'm glad I didn't know the severity...
...judges are leading the charge to purge courtrooms of cameras, some press members have also taken up the cause. Last month Don Hewitt, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, editorialized in the New York Times that the Simpson trial should not have been televised. "I don't like the idea that a murder trial has been turned into an entertainment special," he says. "There are certain moments in American life that have a certain dignity...