The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

However, for convenience we will stick to the idea that information can be classified according to Table 1.

Are we better off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock??

Is the world better for having this idea thrust upon it??

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

As he made plans for the new Taliesin, Wright also got on paper his conception of a cathedral of steel and glass to house a congregation of all faiths, and the idea for a planetarium with a sloping ramp.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

Were any of us interested enough in the idea to do it for her, by proxy so to speak??

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

( To avoid any possible excuse for a dripping parade through your house, it is a good idea to have a telephone extension near the pool as well as a direct outdoor route between the pool, and the parking area.

It wants to interest builders and oil companies in the idea of including its facility in their new home projects, by financing and installing the storage, piping and meters, and leasing these for 15 years, with renewal options, to a strong oil company.

This whole development is certain to be of interest to the readers, for the idea has so often been mentioned, somewhat wistfully.

He also bought a huge square of pegboard for hanging up his tools, and lumber for his workbench, sandpaper and glue and assorted nails, levels and T squares and plumb lines and several gadgets that he had no idea how to use or what they were for.

) By its greater corporeal presence and its greater extraneousness, the affixed paper or cloth serves for a seeming moment to push everything else into a more vivid idea of depth than the simulated printing or simulated textures had ever done.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

The simple, naked idea of one man chasing another is of its nature better fitted for the film than it is for any other form of fiction.

The book's main idea is that high levels of fat intake are the cause of many health disorders common in the U. S., and thus that cutting fat consumption down to 10 % of the total calories consumed would be optimal for most people.

It refers to the idea that the production and consumption of a service occur simultaneously, making it impossible to produce and store a service prior to consumption.

Because the surface of a cantaloupe can contain harmful bacteria — in particular, Salmonella — it is always a good idea to wash and scrub a melon thoroughly before cutting and consumption.

Where the practice of fasting during Lent allowed fish, but prohibited fowl, the idea that the goose was in fact a fish suggested that its consumption be permitted during Lent.

According to those who use the term ' productivism ', the difference between themselves and the promoters of conventional neoclassical economics is that a productivist does not believe in the idea of " uneconomic growth ", i. e. the productivist believes all growth is good, while the critic of productivism believes it can be more like a disease, measurably growing but interfering with life processes, and that it is up to the electorate, worker and purchaser to put values on their free time and decide whether to use their time for production or their money for consumption.

This observation reinforces the idea that social origin, more than economic capital, produces aesthetic preferences because regardless of economic capability consumption patterns remain stable.

Starting with Marxist definitions of consumption and production, he introduces Mauss ’ s idea of " objects that are not consumed " and posits that the majority of human behavior consists of activities that would not be properly categorized as either consumption or production.

The central idea is that sexually selected traits function like conspicuous consumption, signalling the ability to afford to squander a resource simply by squandering it.

Rather, Say sought to refute the idea that production and employment were limited by low consumption.

In support of this idea, Peter Bird wrote in The First Food Empire: A History of J. Lyons and Co. ( 2000 ) that the name ' sundae ' was adopted as a result of Illinois state's early prohibition of ice cream consumption on Sundays, because ice cream with a topping that obscured the main product was not deemed to be ice cream.

* Energy class: a colour code associated to a letter ( from A to G ) that gives an idea of the appliance's electrical consumption

Neutrality of money is the idea that a change in the stock of money affects only nominal variables in the economy such as prices, wages, and exchange rates, with no effect on real ( inflation-adjusted ) variables, like employment, real GDP, and real consumption.

This resonates with Veblen ’ s idea that conspicuous consumption and extravagant status symbols can signal wealth.

Landauer's idea is that in a free exchange economy money must become equal compared to goods having the dual character of exchange and consumption.

The picture is further obfuscated when the idea of respiratory metabolism is introduced to refine and limit the definition of metabolism such that oxygen consumption and synthesis of ATP are its ultimate factors.

The underlying idea is for the government to use tools like interest rates, taxation, and public expenditure to change key economic decisions like consumption, investment, the balance of trade, and public sector borrowing resulting in an ' evening out ' of the business cycle.

Many campaigns by the alcoholic beverage industry that advocate responsible drinking presuppose that drinking for recreational purposes is a positive activity and reinforce this idea as an example of sensible consumption.

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.

The story idea came from smuggling in the 18th century Romney Marsh, where brandy and tobacco were brought in at night by boat from France to avoid high tax.

Some feel the primary reason for the endorsement was to keep the flat tax idea and other supply-side views alive.

Some economists sought to integrate optimal tax theory with the social welfare function, which is the economic expression of the idea that equality is valuable to a greater or lesser extent.

The idea is very simple: at each exchange of a currency into another a small tax would be levied-let's say, 0. 5 % of the volume of the transaction.

While he supported the idea of a federal income tax, Hughes believed the words " from whatever source derived " in the proposed amendment implied that the federal government would have the power to tax state and municipal bonds.

Attorney Philip Tabas of The Nature Conservancy promoted the state tax credit idea widely in the 1990s.

The government has also toyed with the idea of making retirement savings as tax exempt, to encourage Barbadians to spend less on goods and to encourage Barbadians to save more income as they once used to.

With residents evenly split, there was no consensus, and the idea was shelved mainly due to concerns about potential property tax increases.

Another early Berkeley Heights community of note is the Free Acres, established in 1910 by Bolton Hall, a New York entrepreneur and reformer who believed in the idea of Henry George, the economist, of single taxation, under which residents pay tax to the community, which, in turn, pays a lump sum to the municipality.

Along similar lines, John Maynard Keynes approving cited the idea of a carrying tax on money, ( 1936, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money ) but dismissed it due to administrative difficulties.

The Pirate Party of Canada, or the PPCA, has recently brought up the idea of scrapping the tax, as there are plenty of non-piracy related uses for CDs and it is unjust to punish Canadians who don't use them for these purposes.

The supply-siders were influenced strongly by the idea of the Laffer curve, which states that tax rates and tax revenues were distinct — that tax rates too high or too low will not maximize tax revenues.

In a 1992 article for the Harvard International Review, James Tobin wrote, " idea that tax cuts would actually increase revenues turned out to deserve the ridicule …"

Following the general public's acceptance of the postage stamps and the ridicule of the Mulready stationery produced at the same time, vast supplies of the letter sheets were given to government departments, such as the tax office, for official use and the idea of introducing an official stamp was abandoned.

A general economic idea is that if sales taxes are high enough, people start engaging in widespread tax evading activity ( like buying over the Internet, pretending to be a business, buying at wholesale, buying products through an employer etc .).

Supply side economics, especially the idea of reducing higher marginal income tax rates, received heavy criticism from senior editor Jonathan Chait.

To support the expenditures, Drapeau created the first public lottery in Canada in 1968, which he called simply a " voluntary tax ", an idea that would later gain favour and become enlarged by the provincial government by creating Loto-Québec society in 1970.

The South Line's branch to Hapeville was considered for extension into Clayton County as far away as Forest Park, but this idea was also cut off when the voters of that county refused to approve tax funding for the line.

The idea is to simplify the tax system, but the options to be considered do not include extension of NI contributions to other forms of income such as pensions, dividends and savings.

The Georgist philosophy is based on the writings of the economist Henry George ( 1839 – 1897 ), and is usually associated with the idea of a single tax on the value of land.