But a prominent Democratic liberal said the buy-in plan was an idea whose time had come.
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The White House may be wavering in its support for a government-run health insurance plan, an idea that private insurers loathe.
At the heart of their plan is the idea that a single national regulator would take responsibility for overseeing the insolvency of a big international bank, a so-called GSIFI (don't ask) - which is an attempt to prevent a repetition of the uncertainty and confusion caused after Lehman collapsed in 2008.
Entrepreneurs come up with a new idea, form a team, write a business plan, and then pitch their idea to venture capitalists.
Some expect Mr. Bush to endorse a new U.S. Mideast peace plan built around the idea of a "provisional" Palestinian state.
Now, there may be some people -- in fact, I know there are some people -- who think this kind of plan is a good idea.
The Bush administration had been lukewarm to such a plan until Monday, after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told a House committee that he thought a stimulus plan was a good idea.
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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Mr Fraser can expect further opposition with the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Lord Forsyth, calling his plan a "ludicrous idea" which amounts to raising the white flag in the face of opposition from the SNP.
One was Ford's latest plan--a strange idea--of naming all Ford models with the letter F.
The initial plan was to make the idea pedestrian-only during peak visitor periods.
Nick Licata who owns the Brigstow Cafe on Clare Street said he preferred the monthly plan to the original weekly idea.
He said then that every idea in his plan will be paid for, and he has said it dozens of times since then.
The idea behind this plan was to generate roughly the same 18.5%-of-GDP of tax revenue, but in a way that was much more friendly to the economy.
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Europe's rescue plan is based on the idea that Ireland and the rest just need to borrow a bit of cash to tide them over while they sort out their difficulties.
"Medicare is the most popular health plan out there and the idea that it might be expanded is intriguing, " said John Rother, director of legislation and public policy for AARP, the seniors' lobby.
It can in fact be something of a delicate path for the consultant to follow: for you can only really do the work if you are convinced that the desired conclusion and plan really is a good idea.
The consumerism comes through the idea that health plan subscribers think twice about using certain services and therefore make better health choices when they know they could exhaust money in their accounts toward potentially unnecessary procedures or costly medicines.
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The idea, which is Plan C, could be the fastest of the three options currently underway.
Lewin, on a lark, parlayed their idea into a business plan and entered it in a contest at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Somehow... the idea of the public plan became the sine qua non of meaningful reform for a very vocal portion of the Democratic intellectual elite.
Last month, President Karzai gave his first public support to the plan - having previously rejected the idea, angry that the US and Germany had discussed potential locations without him.
Many times, in the five weeks during which their talk had gone from a hazy idea to a concrete plan, they had promised one another that they would not drink Mrs.
The idea is to have a plan in place by the Cannes summit of the G20 in early November.
However, even with capital and expertise, it was still important to write out our idea and create a business plan.
Apple originally said it would only do this if all shareholders were given a vote on the plan, but has since dropped this idea.
If all goes according to the proponents' plan, few senators will have any idea what LOST entails before they are asked to vote for it.
On the idea that we could instead just plan that everyone would use less power.
While this might have seemed like a good idea at the time, the plan went awry, as such plans have before.
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