Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sorokin is not considered to be a leader in the field-on the contrary he is believed by most to hold tenaciously and irrationally to a largely outmoded scheme of analysis. More important, his arguments are emotionally based and hardly representative of current procedure in the field of sociology...
None of his colleagues backed McDonald on this scheme. Free-trading commissioners feared that to propose it would be to admit that tariff cuts actually would hurt home industries. Protectionists ridiculed it, for it struck at the heart of their arguments: by automatically compensating for damage to industry, the only valid reason for tariffs is removed. Gene Milli kin called it "government trying to play the Deity with our economic system." Such statements overlooked some figures computed by the U.S. Labor Department: each week 300,000 newly unemployed workers apply for jobless insurance; but cutting all tariffs in half would...
...riverside woodland, are frequented only by occasional hikers, naturalists or canoeists. Recently the Government began planning construction of a modern, two-lane automobile highway to open the area and its delightful vistas to the general public. But last week, when the Washington Post ran an editorial commending the parkway scheme, it received a sharp and moving dissent. Its author: woods-wise, mountain-loving Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas...
Juice & Fruits. The Cabinet contemplated Andreas' scheme and decided that it was in favor of some nonstrategic trade with Russia. It rejected the argument that, because the Kremlin's biggest current embarrassment is its failure to produce enough food for its own people, the U.S. should let it stew in its own juice. On the contrary, by the fruits of free enterprise the Russian people could learn to love freedom more, it was argued. And besides, such exports might give the U.S. a chance to make an advantageous barter deal, getting from Russia materials in short supply...
...begin with, the West did not even bother to consult Egypt, the biggest Arab state, in advance. Egypt at that time was rioting against the British in the Suez, and it immediately decided that the MEDO scheme was just a clever British trick to perpetuate imperialism. Moreover, disregarding the fact that the Arabs and Israelis were still technically at war, it was proposed that they sit down together at headquarters and swap secrets. The plan was hastily revised to answer objections, but again was spurned by the Arabs...