Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress. Eisenhower would dilute the politically entrenched power of Congress and strengthen the Executive by limiting Senators to two terms of six years each and House members to three terms of four years each. The scheme would modify the congressional committee system which promotes members according to seniority and often assures a single Congressman tight control over a crucial committee for years...
Nikita's scheme flopped. There was not enough rainfall, and the pioneers did not take to tractor life on the bleak frontier...
...action has encouraged the scattered anti-federation forces in many parts of the area that is to be Malaysia. In Singapore, trouble is expected from pro-Communist Chinese elements who are opposed to alignment with Malaya, Southeast Asia's sturdiest anti-Communist state, and keystone of the Malaysia scheme. In any case, the fighting could break out again at any time. As one rebel ominously put it: "We were beaten this time. Next time we will get more arms and maybe we won't be beaten...
...week's end Madame Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, announced that she herself would soon be off to Peking and New Delhi in an effort to sell the scheme to the angry foes...
Produce to Paris. To farmers, Lamour's irrigation scheme was attractive. Less attractive was his proposal that they plow under 300,000 acres of vines and turn to cultivating unfamiliar crops. But Lamour had two persuasive arguments. His diversified Farm of the Partridge was conspicuously profitable. And at Lamour's urging, the government (which is trying to reduce wine production) offered to pay $363 an acre to every Midi farmer who plowed under his grapevines...