Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neufvilles began getting in touch with other shareholders in an attempt to defeat the plan at Security Pacific's annual meeting last month. But Chairman Frederick G. Larkin Jr. assured stockholders that the plan would make officers work hard to raise profits and stock prices, and the scheme was approved. Security Pacific thus joined the growing ranks of companies that are adopting the hottest-and most controversial-executive-compensation idea in years...
...concern with beautifying the Yard will not end with the Pusey Library design. He is already working with Buildings and Grounds officials on a new scheme to exclude all vehicles from the roadways in the Yard. Stubbins has already done a preliminary study--officially called the Yard Service System Study--that suggests that quiet electric carts be used for all the functions now performed in the Yard by motor vehicles...
When Psalms of Two Davids opens this evening it promises to be controversial at very least. It is a spectacle that makes demands on its audience. The intricate kind of double-time scheme may puzzle some; the sex and violence, however stylized, may offend others. One transition in the action of the play simulates the passing of two years by a recitation of the Hebrew names for the months, repeated twice. The beginning of the play is a bizarre surging of voice and motion that rises to a fever pitch; some lines which sound strange at first haunt the whole...
...economic mess is attributable to Torrijos. A mercurial figure of 43, Torrijos has muzzled the press and banned all political parties. Though he allows a figurehead President to sign decrees, he has had himself invested as "maximum leader of the revolution" for another six years. A much ballyhooed scheme to grow sugar cane in the Veraguas province of west-central Panama has failed miserably because the land there is too dry for sugar production. On the other hand, a new labor code that increases workers' benefits has elevated costs and lowered productivity to such an extent that some industrial...
Texas and Louisiana are actively supporting the scheme. But along the Eastern Seaboard, there is strong resistance to the plan. In New Jersey, the state's two Senators angrily oppose the superport projects, and Governor William T. Cahill bluntly calls them "unacceptable." At congressional hearings on the subject last week, Delaware's Senator Joseph R. Biden warned that if just one tanker splits apart, the oil spill "probably would swallow up my whole state...