Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this scheme violates postal laws or is otherwise illegal," Dean Watson warned, "it might lead to serious consequences for those involved, including disciplinary action by the Administrative Board...
...Administration acted yesterday to head off a chain letter scheme involving the purchase of Series E Savings Bonds from Harvard Square banks and the promise of a $50,000 return for a $37 investment...
...that goes far beyond the tin mines. Already Bolivia gets more U.S. aid per capita than any other Latin American nation. Bolivia is so poor (per capita income: $114, only slightly better than Haiti) and so afflicted by nature that the strongest hope for progress rests in a vast scheme to open up fertile eastern lowlands beyond the Andes and relocate large numbers of altiplano Indians. In the past two years, some 100,000 people have gone down from the airless plateau to new farm areas near Santa Cruz, Cochabamba and Caranavi. Over the next eight years, Paz plans...
...injunction, if allowed, will bar Georgia state, county, and city officials from further arrests and persecution of civil rights demonstrators. It charges officials with a "willful, unlawful and openly avowed scheme. . .to intimidate and discourage Negro citizens of Georgia from the exercise of their civil rights, including the right to vote...
...late 1780s, every influential western leader was "publicly proclaiming his loss of faith in the national government." Separatist plans were rife: one scheme set up the state of Franklin, complete with constitution and elected governor. In Washington's phrase, "the touch of a feather" might have turned the frontier to independence, or even to an alliance with Great Britain...