Word: idea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last year, both Duehay and Wolf voted against the sale of property rights on the site of the Harvard Motor House, correctly arguing that the city had almost no idea of the actual worth of the property. Unlike the majority of the City Council, they did not simply place their trust in the developer's promise that the deal was a fair one. Two more years of a little healthy suspicion would serve the council well...
Proposition 2 cannot be supported by itself, however. The initiative should be rejected and the idea considered later...
...under way, these measures seem limp. Such a step-by-step approach would be, at best, yet another example of the -- dare one say timid? -- incrementalism on arms control and trade that has marked Soviet-American relations for four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make a basic change...
...February 1988. Edward Ashworth, a member of the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, said he was sorry to disturb her at home but hoped she would seriously consider the reason for his call: he wanted to know if she would be open to the idea of creating a memorial to those who had given their lives in the struggle for civil rights. Since she had designed the much celebrated Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, he was certain that she was the right, perhaps only, person to do this. As with Viet Nam, there had never been...
...told myself," Lin says, "that I was not going to design any more war memorials, but this wasn't that. The idea sounded interesting, and I told him that it would be fine to send me something...