If not, a little reminder about the way in which the creation of railway time led to our use of both time zones and the very idea of nationally coordinated time.
In contrast, for someone using affordable loss reasoning, the idea of getting underway is far more important than having a fixed goal, because they understand they have no idea of knowing ahead of time whether their idea will truly work as imagined.
The idea of taking time off seems preposterous for a lot of entrepreneurs.
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In the early days I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have.
But it does seem to me that someone has a pretty good idea ahead of time what the statistics will say.
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The unusually hot weather, even in upstate New York, has made the idea of spending time working outside about as appealing as dental surgery.
That proved unpopular with the exam boards themselves, who did not like the idea of investing time and money in tendering for one of the subjects only to lose out.
Analysts from the Chinese Academy of Social Science and China Development Research Center have proposed the idea of one-time 10% revaluation of the RMB.
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The idea of a real time audience is, I now understand, an antiquated concept.
That's why you've got to broach the idea with plenty of time to get everyone on board.
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His idea of a good time was to spend an evening with his family, or perhaps studying Iraqi history.
We were deep indoors though, so native GPS wasn't working and we couldn't get a clear idea of satellite acquisition time.
But asking employees to do that is a recipe for exhaustion, for making them bad at both their main job and their 20% job, and undermines the very idea of 20% time.
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It is perhaps not every reporter's idea of a good time, but I can honestly say that covering the Stafford Hospital public inquiry was one of the most fascinating and memorable years of my life.
John Stevens, the executive producer of the show, countered that the series was actually unlike any others on television, as the "Buckwild" bunch's idea of a good time was more hanging out in the woods than on Twitter or Facebook.
Nor is it everyone's idea of a good time to scramble up to the snowline on the 3, 200-metre Kitzsteinhorn peak, just to hear an avant-garde work by an American, George Lopez, delivered by plucky players perched like mountain goats along the cliffs nearby.
For managers of bust companies, the idea of finally having enough time to watch a game under the old logo may be a form of solace.
What is a winning idea in this world of real-time optimization, where the idea is never static, but constantly shifting by design?
And with the whole idea of healthy snacking really coming to the forefront around that time, we came up with the idea of repositioning Craisins as a healthy snack alternative.
The future has always been sparked the idea of velocity, of time passing quicker.
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His idea, ahead of its time, was greeted with a yawn by biologists.
These businesses are built on the idea that most of the time, consumers are driving alone and when hunger strikes, the decision is simple.
It probably seemed like a good idea at the time of filing (2009) when other force-sensing options had yet to hit market, but this one seems unlikely to see daylight -- though, you never know.
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Not a good idea in the best of times, a terrible idea at this time.
And I see sometimes people will spend a huge amount of time on their big business idea and doing tons of market analysis and reading every article they can and cross-referencing 20 different potential competitors.
One of the most popular American CEOs of all time, who tinkered with the idea of his own presidential bid, Iacocca has praised Romney in the past.
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Also, over strong London coffees, Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren and philosopher Robert Hooke met to discuss the movement of Earth and Dr John Wilkins mooted, for the first time ever, the idea of flying to the moon.
France is railing loudly against the idea of cutting its deficit any time soon.
This is not the first time the idea of offering President Moi a retirement package has been mooted.
Back then, the idea of offering free peak-time calls to consumers calling contacts within the same network was novel.
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