Word: planned
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Britain's respected Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot (who previously guided both the Nigerians and Jamaicans on the road to independence) moved swiftly to reduce onerous restrictions, so that Makarios and Turkish Cypriot leaders would find it easier to sell the compromise plan to a doubting populace. Swallowing hard, the British proclaimed an amnesty that assures safe-conduct to Greece for Colonel George Grivas, wispy, 60-year-old leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA, along "with anyone he may wish to take with him." The British also announced plans to cut their garrison from...
Publisher Newhouse said flatly that the Guild's insistence on a guaranteed pension plan forced the deal on the creaking Globe. "We had no choice," he said. "They had a gun at our heads...
...population, despite an infant mortality rate of 20%, keeps going up by 4% a year. But Lemus, an efficient President, has completed the best road network in Central America. Now he would like to raise $190 million in public and private funds to fuel an ambitious "ten-year plan" designed to diversify agriculture, build schools, houses and light industries...
...junkets operate on the principle that lofty aims are more effective if all the aiming is not in the same direction. Eight Cantabrigians who will set out in June for Arguin Island, off the Atlantic coast of French West Africa, in a 15-ton ketch called Daisy of Maldon, plan to do hydrographic surveys for the Admiralty, poke archaeologically at a 18th century Portuguese fort, skindive for wrecks, and test the effects of a four-man jazz combo on African ears. "Also," says Expedition Leader Anthony Churchill (no kin), "we may try distilling gin from seaweed." Oxford's Exploration...
However, the plan faces many obstacles. If the College expands its student body, or if the Houses decide to de-convert a large number of suites, there would be no room for graduate students. According to Owen, however, "From all available indications, we will make little deconversion, because undergraduates cannot afford, or do not want...