Word: planning
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...others. Now the Labor Party wants to send all children to comprehensive schools-and many middle-class parents are aghast. If grammar schools go, they charge, their children will have to mix with academic and social inferiors. Seizing the issue, the Conservative Party has vowed to block the Labor plan, especially if the Tories win Britain's forthcoming national elections...
...universities on the presence of the academically unfit. Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt offers statistics purporting to prove that skills in reading, spelling and arithmetic have dropped in the past 55 years. Underlying the invective is a pervasive fear that educational reform is the cutting edge of a Labor Party plan to break down Britain's social structure...
Knowing exactly where they stood, the companies could say to their banks: "We are going to be compensated. Can we have money to start to diversify?" The "Snarr Plan" would cost some $500 million and offensive billboards would vanish in a few years...
Despite its logic, the Snarr Plan will not be tested until a bill introduced by Utah's Senator Frank Moss is passed to authorize $15 million for a pilot sign-removal project in several states. Snarr is lobbying hard for it. Even hardened Congressmen find him irresistible. Speaking before the Senate subcommittee on roads last June, he explained his plan and exalted "the inspiration of America." The Senators were spellbound; John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky was reportedly on the verge of tears. Last week the subcommittee approved the Moss bill, which now goes to the floor for the consideration...
...Maine still has no laws regulating oil spills, offshore drilling and the like. Yet oilmen are now surveying the state's harbors, the only ports in the East deep enough to berth the industry's ever larger supertankers. The key trouble spot is Machiasport, where three companies plan major refineries despite thick fogs and tricky currents that pose serious risks of tanker mishaps and oil spillage. Devoid of controls, says Cole, "the state is standing stark naked to the oilmen...