Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is a commendable-indeed, indispensable-goal. But some of Carter's chosen methods are debatable. The program largely bypasses the supply and demand workings of a free economy. Instead, the presidential plan relies heavily on rewards and penalties, to be dealt out mainly through a complex scheme of taxes and rebates. "Voluntary compliance is not enough," said Carter. "The problem is too large and the time is too short." Major items...
...THIS UNSCATHING satire, Glenda Jackson is running for abbess of the convent against Felicity (Susan Penhaligon), a young nun who preaches a platform of free love. With the help of her Haldeman-Ehrlichman like cronies (Geraldine Page and Anne Jackson), Jackson engineers a scheme to record her rival's conversations and steal love letters from her sewing basket. Naturally, the Jesuits hired to filch the evidence are caught in the act, and the nuns decide on cover-up rather than confession...
Susan Foss is only one of thousands of seriously ill people who are participating in an extraordinary program of outpatient hospital care. Begun in 1960 to cut rising costs of New Zealand's largely free, womb-to-tomb national health system, the scheme has kept expenses at about 500 a day for each extramural patient in the greater Auckland area (pop. 800,000), compared with the average $41 daily price tag for in-patient care. It has also saved at least 3,000 additional hospital beds, while at the same time making life more bearable for tens of thousands...
...plot revolves around a terrorist scheme by the Palestinian Black September group (Munich Olympics, 1972) to murder a stadium full of football fans at the Super Bowl, 1978, by simultaneously shooting 80,000 steel darts into the bleachers from the underbelly of the Goodyear blimp. The political motives of the principals involved, although necessarily handled mostly as a premise for suspense, are carefully presented so no-one can take credit as a sympathetic protagonist. Bruce Dern, as an ex-POW who was court-marshalled for making a film commending the North Vietnamese cause during his capture and has gotten nothing...
...AUBURN-FOLSOM PROJECT. The fight over the $1 billion scheme on California's American River provides a case study in the realities of water politics. Governor Jerry Brown, an ardent environmentalist, had campaigned for office as an opponent of new dams, but the severe drought, which has forced some of his Northern California constituents to haul water by the bucket, has changed Brown's mind. When Carter put Auburn-Folsom on his list, Brown came out in favor of the project, which is designed to irrigate 29,000 acres and provide supplemental water to 387,000 more. Brown...