Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help celebrate the Crystal Palace Exhibition (the first world's fair), members of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hit on a grand scheme: invite a U.S. boat to race-and give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron...
Pursue the opposite policy, advocating a scheme and expecting to gain credit by its adoption, and you may well succeed-just once." Reason: no one likes a pusher...
...Dixon-Yates storm over a $107 million contract to supply private power in the Tennessee Valley Authority area; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. After advocates of public power forced a Senate investigation, charging that it was all a scheme to cripple TVA, President Eisenhower was eventually forced to cancel the deal; Dixon vainly sued the Government for $1,867,454 that he claimed his company lost in the squabble...
...This province has had a major operation," said he. "I prescribe for it absolute rest." The major operation was the settlement of the bitter, 22-day strike of Saskatchewan's doctors, who closed their offices rather than practice under the Socialist government's new compulsory medical insurance scheme...
...medical insurance plan. But by their stubborn fight, the doctors won modifications in the plan removing what they had feared as political controls over the practice of medicine. In the key concessions, Saskatchewan's Premier Woodrow Lloyd made clear that the doctors could practice inside or outside the scheme, agreed to let the province's two major doctor-operated voluntary insurance plans continue in business, and expanded the doctors' representation on the medicare plan's governing commission...