Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard about them. But his duty as chief law-enforcement officer was to have the planners arrested right there for conspiring to commit crimes. Once the wiretapping was revealed last June 17, it seems inconceivable that Mitchell did not tell Nixon at once precisely who had pushed the scheme-or that Nixon...
...provide extra rations to a number of specified "priority" customers, including hospitals and ambulance fleets, police and fire departments, farmers, food processors and distributors, truckers, airlines and bus systems. To prevent unjustified windfalls, the majors must sell gasoline to the independents at the normal prevailing market price. The entire scheme will be administered by the Interior Department's Office of Oil and Gas. Compliance will be voluntary -much like Phase III wage and price controls-but if the Office of Oil and Gas receives a complaint about a recalcitrant oil supplier, its enforcers can slap a mandatory allocation scheme...
...compromise. Though he has pared welfare rolls and held down property taxes, he has had to raise income taxes. Since he took office, the state budget has doubled, reaching $9.3 billion for fiscal 1974. But to wind up his governorship with a conservative flourish, Reagan has concocted a scheme that would put a constitutional limit on the percentage of personal income tax that Californians must pay to the state...
...taxpayers $415 million of this fiscal year's $850 million budget surplus. A citizens' group called Californians for Lower Taxes sprang up on command. On its first mailing of 120,000 letters, the group received 11,130 contributions, amounting to $140,000. So popular is the scheme that liberal Democrats are reluctant to attack it. As Reagan says with a smile: "If you're for it, you've got a lot going for you. It's like shooting fish in a barrel...
MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS. Even the best fossil-fuel plants operate at about 40% efficiency. Only that portion of the fuel's energy is converted into electricity; the rest is simply turned into waste heat. A more efficient power-generation scheme, magnetohydrodynamics, creates an electric current by passing a stream of hot, ionized gas at high speed through a powerful magnetic field. MHD plants should be able to operate at nearly 50% efficiency. Unfortunately, the U.S. is leaving almost all research and development in MHD to the Russians, who figure that it will eventually fill 10% of their electrical needs...