Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only" remedy would not desegregate the city's schools, since almost 65 per cent of the city's school age population is black. No matter how mixed, the system would remain "racially identifiable as black," in violation of the Constitution. The black plaintiffs have argued that only a busing scheme encompassing the entire metropolitan area, about 80 per cent white, could establish a truly desegregated school system...
...Michael in 1962, Louise had to play mother, but William carried on much as before. He buttered up his brother Richard, who had got hold of his own duffel bag containing $1.1 million. Then William conned Richard into believing that he was his partner in a drug-stealing scheme. He also got him to make his older brother the beneficiary of a new will. In 1965 Richard was found dead in a parked car with a bullet hole behind his right...
While focusing down on individual cells in the course of their investigations into the grand scheme of the brain, neuroscientists-like the Persian fairy tale's three princes of Serendip-have been making fortuitous discoveries that have already resulted in improved clinical treatment of several serious illnesses...
...arrival of those two children-now the famous actor Sir Basil Hunter and the Princesse Dorothy de Lascabanes of Passy-to try to dismantle their mother's property, pen her up in a nursing home, thus reducing her expenses and increasing their inheritance. It is not an original scheme for a long novel, but then White has never been put off by unpromising material. He has also been accused of not liking his characters, and the criticism seems apt regarding the Hunter family and their satellites...
...Milton Friedman, for example, has long espoused a negative income tax as a substitute for Social Security with payments going only to those who could prove they were in need. Ideologically, conservatives would prefer to have workers depend on freely chosen pension plans rather than a mandatory social insurance scheme. But that alternative generates little enthusiasm at a time when many private pension plans are shaky. In any event, though modifications in the system will probably have to be made, Social Security is in no danger of fading away. For all its flaws, the system's deep and widespread...