When he was 12 and took science classes at Northwestern University, he saw a school bus, and had an idea: what if the clunky, right-angled school bus was more aerodynamic?
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After that, Starkweather and Goldman had an idea for getting the laser printer to market quickly: graft a laser onto a Xerox copier called the 7000.
She was pale and thin, hair pinned back, and I had an idea that she wanted to look neutral, seem neutral in order to challenge people to notice her.
Sure, we knew 4x4 was on the way, and we had an idea AMD was prepping a fancy new "Quad FX" moniker for the spankin' new chipsets, but we were still waiting for the stamp of legitimacy, which just came in the form of an AMD unveil this morning in Japan.
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And I had an idealistic idea of what democracy is in the centre of Europe.
Then a year ago Hanke went to Google CEO Larry Page to tell him he had an idea and was leaving to start a new company.
Business partner and friend Jerry Boddum, a real-estate developer, had a storefront that was vacant for some months and the two had been trying to come up with an idea to fill the space.
Meanwhile, the Internet had come along, and Johnson got an idea: Why not distribute programming over the Web instead of expensive, failure-prone satellites?
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Manuel Valdes, looking out of place in the kitchen in slacks and a button-down shirt, had an idea of how to salvage the desiccated pie pulled from the pizza oven: lay on slices of chicken sausage to replace the bone-dry pieces of chicken breast.
And he said Kastner celebrated that theme and also what children could do by themselves, an idea that had been picked up by writers such as Enid Blyton, Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson.
We had an idea it might happen and have been trying to diversify.
In essence, each duck represents an idea that someone had and made real.
Once teams came up with an idea and plan, they had the opportunity to practice pitch the judges and seek their guidance in the lead up to the final three-minute presentations on day two.
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Generating this suspension of disbelief is essential to stirring up demand for gadgets most consumers had no idea they needed, and is an art form of which Mr. Jobs has long been the acknowledged master.
Gephardt is concerned that Archer has indicated only certain areas are off-bounds to be used to pay for tax cuts, and has rejected the idea that an agreement had been reached regarding low-income housing credits paying for a tax cut.
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If they had an idea that needed immediate action and the agency was unable to fund it that afternoon, they simply wrote a check from their personal accounts.
On a related issue, Mr. Bush did say he favored a long-term enlargement of both the Army and the Marine Corps, an idea his administration had opposed under former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Before the summit, India had floated the idea of opening extra border crossings between the two countries, and optimists had speculated about an agreement to build an oil pipeline from Iran to India, through Pakistan.
Moffit and his colleagues at the Heritage Foundation had promoted the idea of an exchange to help people buy insurance.
Two weeks before the fire, Mr Philpott told friends he had an idea for a way of getting Ms Willis and the children back, the jury heard.
He has no idea how profound an impact it had on me and my wife, and countless others.
There is absolutely no doubt that Beth Jacobson had an idea that changed the lives of thousands of patients and transformed a tiny biotechnology company.
"What I had to do was present an idea that was so interesting and so alluring that everybody could believe in it, and the idea of a motion picture scouting party was what I came up with, " he says.
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The bartender was what I'd come to expect of the remaining white Africans living in Namibia: He was the hotel owner, a farmer, a prospector and perfectly willing to make me a multi-course dinner if I had an idea of what I wanted.
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They said it was an overstatement to suggest the men had made genuine plans and the toy car idea had gone nowhere.
Into an area that neither I nor they had much idea about and even then not something that they really needed to know.
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Spending all his savings and putting himself into debt, Ray took a gamble on an idea he had to create a place for people to mountain bike during the winter.
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Last winter she had an idea for a new business -- delivering handmade cakes and pastries, on just three hours' notice, anywhere in New York City, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
One of the central achievements of the 1993 budget deal, the expansion of the earned-income tax credit, was an idea that had long been championed by the right, and it had far less curb appeal for labor-liberals than the promise of a cradle-to-grave welfare state.
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