As he recovered in the Warrior Transition Unit at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, Sergeant Wood tried to decide whether to stay in the military by switching to less taxing jobs, an idea he hated, or to leave, collect his benefits and find a civilian job.
In addition to Act 72, Zahorchak supported a Rendell proposal to require superintendents and principals in struggling school districts to improve math and reading test scores in order to keep their jobs, an idea that was not embraced by the Pennsylvania Legislature.
In Australia and Britain, they pay a fixed percentage of their income; the authors recommend instead linking repayment to the health of the job market, an idea first proposed by Milton Friedman.
Forcing candidates to relinquish their offices when pursuing another job is an idea going nowhere fast; it's progress as negligible as that of someone trying to cross the George Washington Bridge during a "traffic study".
Mr. Jones, who heads the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, which helps kids avoid jail and secure jobs, has an idea how to change that — a "green-collar" jobs program that focuses on underprivileged youth.
This also requires that people believe that there is a finite number of jobs -- an idea which has been proven a fallacy.
At the moment anybody in a regular job who has an idea for a new company has a very strong incentive to shelve his idea and stay put.
IT IS a typical autumn day in Seattle, and that has given Mike McGinn, who is fighting to keep his job as mayor, an idea.
There were no openings on the staff at the time, but Oakley and Weinstein were hired to write the episode "Marge Gets a Job", based on an idea by Conan O'Brien.
A keepsake box filled with mementos from the job might be an idea.
Jackson took advantage of summers jobs -- at Argonne National Laboratory, Bell Labs, and as a tutor for MIT's Interphase program for undergraduates -- and recommends that students try different kinds of science jobs to get an idea of what to do later on.
