The building was based on an idea by Frits Philips, who originally made a sketch of the building on a paper napkin.

The idea was to let independent operators use the same name, food, supplies, logo and even building design in exchange for a fee.

American authorities at one time entertained the idea of building a road from Kangerlussuaq to the second-largest airport, in Narsarsuaq, several hundred kilometres to the south.

The fundamental idea is that, once the expensive job of building the elevator is complete, an indefinite number of loads can be transported into orbit at minimal cost.

One theory deals with whether learning should take place as a building of concepts toward an overall idea, or the understanding of the overall idea with the details filled in later.

This idea requires the building of a molecular structure that will permit control and detection of nerve impulses by an external computer.

The construction of motorways began in the early 1990s with the idea building a world class road network and to reduce the load off the heavily used national highways throughout the country.

This notion was an underpinning for his concept of the spiral curriculum which posited the idea that a curriculum should revisit basic ideas, building on them until the student had grasped the full formal concept.

A related idea is to obtain economies of scale from building simple, massive, multi-stage rockets using cheap, off-the-shelf parts.

Further work led to the idea of building a smaller " wet workshop " based on the S-IVB, launched as the second stage of a Saturn IB.

Consideration was also given to building atop railroad tracks on the West Side of Manhattan ( an idea revived in 1998 ) and to Long Island City, in Queens.

" My program is unique in the military service in this respect: You know the expression ' from the womb to the tomb '; my organization is responsible for initiating the idea for a project ; for doing the research, and the development ; designing and building the equipment that goes into the ships ; for the operations of the ship ; for the selection of the officers and men who man the ship ; for their education and training.

Arising from the dominant discourse of the Jewish suffering during the years of Nazi domination, and building on the divergence of differential victimhoods brought to light by studies of the Roma and the mentally ill, who suffered massively under the eugenics programs of the Third Reich, the idea of a “ Gay Holocaust ” was first explored in the early 1970s.

So, he toyed with the idea of building his own festival hall ( the Festspielhaus ) in Bayreuth.

The idea of building a fixed link between Sakhalin and the Russian mainland was first mooted in the 1930s.

And I think it ’ s not a good idea to go into business with somebody whose strategies would put you out of business, rather than building the business .< ref >"

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, Odysseus came up with the idea of building a great wooden horse ( the horse being the emblem of Troy ), hiding an elite force inside, and fooling the Trojans into wheeling the horse into the city as a trophy.

I just don't like the idea of that, but maybe that's wishy-washy of me, because I don't want those buildings standing if they hurt anyone ... Why would you preserve building just so someone can make a profit by continuing to hurt and kill individuals who feel every bit as much as we do?

A group of investors, led by Al Bruner and Peter Hill, founded Global Communications Ltd. with the idea of building a cross-Canada, all-UHF network.

The idea of building a fixed link across the strait between Labrador and Newfoundland, known as the Newfoundland-Labrador fixed link, has been raised numerous times in recent decades following an unsuccessful attempt to build a tunnel carrying electrical wires in the mid-1970s.

Some building owners have taken to combating this unpleasantness by painting murals of gods on their walls, with the idea that gutkha chewers would not spit on a god.

He remembers Bill's talent and pitches the idea of having a man climb the " 12-story Bolton building ", which De Vore's occupies.

The idea of a canal across southern Sweden was first put forward as early as 1516, by Hans Brask, the bishop of Linköping.

However, since this treaty was mutually rescinded by the United States and Nicaragua in 1970, the idea of another canal in Nicaragua still periodically resurfaces.

The canal idea was discussed seriously by businessmen and governments throughout the 19th century.

In the 1520s and 1530s, the Spanish crown had ordered surveys of the isthmus to determine the feasibility of such a canal, but the idea was soon abandoned.

The idea of constructing such a canal was first considered by Miles Standish of the Plymouth Colony in 1623, and Pilgrims scouted the low-lying stretch of land between the Manomet and the Scusset rivers for potential routes.

Charles V is credited with the first idea of constructing an American Isthmus canal in Panama as early as 1520.

The alleged motive is that some American business leaders and politicians strongly opposed the negotiations between Torrijos and a group of Japanese businessmen led by Shigeo Nagano, who were promoting the idea of a new, larger, sea-level canal for Panama.

The first known idea to build a canal between the River Mersey and the River Trent was put forward in 1755, though no action was taken at that time.

For local industries along the route of the proposed canal, whose operations relied on water from local rivers and brooks which the canal might also use, its construction was a controversial idea.

The idea for a canal to Liskeard was first investigated in 1777 when Edmund Leach and a gentleman from Liskeard proposed a manure canal, which would be used to transport lime and sand upwards from Looe.

Thomas Telford revived the idea of a ship canal in 1824, which would have taken over the line of the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal – enabling boats to reach the south coast – at a cost of £ 1. 75 million.

However, the idea of turning the canal over to automobiles was opposed by some, including United States Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Popular response to and press coverage of the hike turned the tide against the parkway idea and, on January 8, 1971, the canal was designated a National Historical Park.

Three Roman rulers considered the idea but all suffered violent deaths ; the historian Suetonius tells us that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar considered digging a canal through the isthmus but was assassinated before he could commence the project.

Eventually, the experience of building long multi-level cuts with their own locks gave rise to the idea of building a " pure " canal, a waterway designed on the basis of where goods needed to go, not where a river happened to be.

The region was suffering from the effects of the Long Depression, and for the canal's proponents, who argued that the scheme would boost competition and create jobs, the idea of a ship canal made sound economic sense.

This work struck de Lesseps's imagination, and gave him the idea of constructing a canal across the African isthmus.

The idea of connecting Dublin to the Shannon was proposed as early as 1715, and in 1757 the Irish Parliament granted Thomas Omer £ 20, 000 to start construction of a canal.

This gave Austrians the idea to dig a canal to connect the Danube with the Black Sea at the shortest point before the Delta, between Rasova or Cernavodă ( Bogaz Köi ) and Constanţa ( Küstendjie ), and a parallel railway.

As the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia ( 1859 ) remained formally Ottoman vassals, and moreover Dobruja was directly administered by the Ottomans, the idea to build the canal was not of interest to Romanians.

The idea to build a canal became a national issue, which could promote Romania's international trade.

Instead, Sage came up with the idea of a canal to float logs from the Black River to supply the mills of Lake Simcoe.