Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are at least two big problems with this approach. One is that such representation tends to make consensus-building far more difficult than it need be. More importantly, from both the theoretical and practical standpoints, such a scheme raises the simple question of where to stop. Having set such a precedent, one is compelled to weigh the legitimacy of any other claimant groups that may arrive on the scene. When other groups (final clubs, athletic teams, commuters, Hungarian-Americans, short people) seek similar status, what criteria do we employ in selecting among them...
...President and his advisers were more comfortable with the payments scheme...
...government's most ambitious attempt to restructure the economy while permitting private ownership has been to give workers a voice in corporate management. A 1972 scheme for "industrial democracy" requires all firms with more than 200 employees to give worker representatives one-third of the votes in the new "corporate assemblies" that replaced the traditional shareholders' meeting. Another idea being contemplated by the Labor Party is the "Gjest Baardsen fund," named after the legendary Norwegian version of Robin Hood. Like its name sake, the scheme would take money from successful companies and give it to unprofitable ones...
...report is the culmination of three-and-a-half years of effort and an attempt by worried professors to devise a scheme to provide a better education for students at Harvard. The central questions--the questions that have historically dominated debates over General Education--remain fairly clear: What is an "educated" person? Who should decide when and how a person is to be educated...
...some $7.2 million, and dominates Columbia's board. The article, which was written by Lucian K. Truscott IV, an aspiring novelist and a freelance journalist, asserted that Allen & Co. was seeking to sell out. Begelman's reinstatement and the condoning of his crimes, charged Truscott, were part of a scheme by Allen & Co. to show that all was well, in order to keep the stock price high and thus make a big profit. Even more serious was the article's suggestion that Charles Allen Jr., 75, the firm's frail founder, had associations with the Mafia...