They bring with them a fixed idea of what a university is all about, and are unexcited by what they consider their chancellor's unglamorous goal.

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Not least of which is the question of original sin, a tradition that seems harder and harder to reconcile with what science is telling us about human origins, because it presupposes a fixed idea of human nature.

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So, while we absolutely maintain a mandate of providing income to our shareholders, we wanted there to be a little less of an emphasis on an idea that there would be a fixed income payment on a quarterly basis.

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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.

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"The idea that colleges have a fixed pot of money for financial aid and that this pot either goes to needy people or goes to people without need is simply wrong, " says Brown's Grossman.

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Another idea is a formal system of booking operations on fixed dates.

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The whole theory of judicial review is based on the idea that the law is out there, a fixed structure to be interpreted by judges.

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The idea of defining the value of the dollar in terms of the value of a fixed weight of gold is not a radical notion.

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