Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...importing nations to unite in terms of not permitting crude that is traded at premiums to enter their countries. In short, we should prohibit the import of any oil or oil products that sell above the official posted prices. Perhaps this prohibition should be coupled with an international allocation scheme. This is a proposal that will appeal to nobody because it means more Government in business. But what is at stake is the economic welfare of all our countries. When that is at stake, I believe that even though what one suggests should be done looks difficult-if not impossible...
...mater worth? The University is betting it will be worth at least a quarter of a billion dollars over the next five years. Assuming the Corporation formally agrees--which now seems almost certain--Harvard will launch a five-year, $250-million fund drive some time this fall, a grand scheme that administrators hope will bolster Harvard's massive $1.4 billion endowment in the face of relentless inflation...
...Suite," or even "Pi Eta Suite," but do try to see Overtures in Asia Minor, the 1979 Hasty Pudding offering. This year's showcase of lousy puns and a male kickline deals with spies in Near East opium dens and a butler who, quoting T.S. Eliot, foils a dastardly scheme to prevent forever Anglo-Saxon morality. Or something like that. The plot doesn't really matter, with all those sumptuous sets and gorgeous costumes and knock-out numbers. And those legs. At the Hasty Pudding Theater (would any decent place house this show...
...Hanes) is the mastermind behind SPAM's plot to fill the snuff boxes of the British with opium and blow away their entire navy. In the end, thanks to the efforts of O'Genick's fellow travelers, Spasm the Butler (Rich O'Leary) and Ella Mental (Doug Fitch), the scheme is thwarted. (Leavitt and Peirce's sales have dropped sharply since the show opened...
...Iranian revolution, as did revolutions that preceeded it, proved the weakness of any U.S. attempts to impose a government or modernization scheme on an unwilling people. In future dealings with the Khomeini government and the Iranian people, the United States should continue to refrain from any attempts to reshape Iran--that is the Iranian's business, and their business alone. The internal reconstruction of Iranian society and politics must never again be left to American strategists and intelligence agencies...