Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempt to cure the CB pollution of the air waves by allotting more channels [July 26] has the same chance for success as a scheme to cure smog by building more roads...
...first woman chairman of the Republican National Committee, will be one of the few women with a key role. Named party chairman by Ford shortly after he became President in 1974, she was widely regarded as a caretaker who would swiftly be replaced. An ill-advised public relations scheme that included a costly television flop (Republicans Are People Too) seemed to ensure her early departure. But the gentle mother of three and grandmother of five proved to have staying power. When the convention is called to order at 10:30 a.m. next Monday, Ford backer Mary Louise Smith, a native...
Authorities reportedly were looking for two more suspects, and indeed it seemed unlikely that the three young men could have thought of pulling off such a grandiose scheme on their own. Investigators searching Woods' home turned up the draft of a ransom note demanding $5 million, the money to be packed into suitcases and dropped by parachute from an airplane upon a designated spot in Santa Cruz county...
Fearful that Smith's stubbornness will result in a violent showdown with the overwhelming black majority, U.S. and British diplomats are working on a plan to purchase, in effect, white acceptance of an early peaceful transition to black rule. Still in the drafting stage, the scheme might seek to commit Britain, other members of the Common Market, the U.S. and states neighboring on Rhodesia legally, financially and even militarily to guarantee a bloodless solution to the Rhodesian problem. Rhodesia's whites and black tribal minorities might be offered a "safety net" composed of a floor price for their...
Since insurers are far from eager to be assessed to pay GEICO's claims, they may yet band together to save the company. Wallach and GEICO officials could conceivably soon decide to consider the reinsurance scheme a success if only 30% of the premiums are taken over. There is also a slim chance that the D.C. Department of Insurance may exercise its legal right to take over management of GEICO, though Wallach has not yet suggested it. Whatever happens, the fiasco could well rekindle congressional interest in setting up a federal body to insure insurers the way the Federal...