Word: planned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...congregation slipping away. Al Simon, father of three, wanted to take his children back to America. "No! No! No!" screamed his wife. Someone whispered to her: "Don't worry, we're going to take care of everything." Indeed, as reporters learned later from survivors, Jones had a plan to plant one or more fake defectors among the departing group, in order to attack them. He told some of his people that the Congressman's plane "will fall...
...year. Aside from costing too much, the whole rationale for "reform" was thrown into question at Senate hearings this month. A $60 million, seven-year study conducted by the Stanford Research Institute in Seattle and Denver showed that people in guaranteed annual income programs, the centerpiece of the Carter plan, worked fewer hours than before, and their marriages broke up more frequently than those of persons on the present welfare system. Carter is considering supporting a revised welfare proposal that would not be fully funded until 1982 and would cost $6 billion...
Preusser suggests that the University could have reduced the plan's impact on Cambridge by also extending the housing loans to ten nearby communities. But according to O'Brien, such an expansion would defeat the loan program's goal of keeping faculty members near students...
Harvard officials, not surprisingly, think otherwise. Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, says the plan--which offers a minimum of 20 loans of $100,000 each this year, drawn from a $2 million fund--won't make a dent in a city the size of Cambridge...
City officials also object to another part of the plan which gives Harvard a one-month option of purchasing property owned by any Faculty member covered by the plan--raising the old specter of University expansion...