Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journeyman Middle Western politician prepared him for the kind of decisions he had to make in the White House. Yet he made those choices, without swagger or rhetoric. (It is typical that he called his Administration the Fair Deal. Not Great. Not Big. Just Fair.) Without that extraordinary scheme for giving, the Marshall Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal Fair Employment Practices Committee. It also...
Meanwhile, a panel appointed by New York State's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey recommended that $6 billion of the city's short-term debt be bought by the state and converted into long-term debt, a scheme that would greatly ease the city's cash squeeze. Whether or not that specific plan goes through, the outlook is for some sort of compromise under which Beame will get new aid and loans, but less than he seeks, and reduce his layoff plans...
...permanent agreement is not the Secretary of States goal it is father to end hostilities and relieve international tension. Thus there is no long range peace plan under consideration which takes into account the Palestinian question. "Step by step" takes place not in the context of an overall scheme for peace, but in a vacuum. Also, Kissinger has ignored the necessity for Arabs and Israelis to negotiate directly, at the same table, and has instead created a situation where the Arabs, particularly the Egyptians, approach the problem as though the United States is Israel's spokesman. Due to Kissinger...
...1920s, state officials have uncovered what could be the biggest and most Byzantine fraud of them all. As many as 80,000 investors and buyers of lots may have been bilked of $1 billion by development companies and mortgage brokers in Southern Florida. According to investigators, the Ponzi-like scheme worked this way: the developers bought nearly worthless tracts of land, subdivided them and sold homesites at inflated prices; they used the proceeds to pay high interest on bogus notes sold to investors under a false claim that the notes were secured by first mortgages on the homesites. When...
...Arab-Common Market parley that was in the last stages of preparation. The Arabs' pique seemed to be directed not so much at the EEC-Israeli accord, but at the fact that it was signed before any Arab state was brought into the EEC's scheme for a Mediterranean free-trade area...