Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built railroad cars and send the missiles around the U.S. so that no enemy could zero in on them. But it turned out that the rail-riding Minuteman would increase costs by 60%; and last fortnight, after spending $108 million on the project, the Defense Department canceled the railroad scheme, decided to tuck all Minutemen underground...
...Bjorklund admits that his scheme to inoculate human patients with the vaccine at this time is a venturesome undertaking. But he explains that his work is at a pinnacle and he has "the courage to take a leap." Some of his colleagues, including Dr. Sven Gard, professor of virology at Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute, fear that he may be leaping too far too fast. In the conglomeration of materials in the Bjorklund vaccine, they argue, there may well be lurking some ingredients that can produce harmful side effects, even disease...
...Bjorklund announced his scheme on television, gave his program a sendoff by plunging a hypodermic needle into his own arm. The odds are heavily against Dr. Bjorklund's clinical trials, as they have been against those tried by scores of other cancer researchers. But against such a scourge as cancer, the possible payoff is proportionate to the odds...
...Holland), the ex-competitors set up Unilever Ltd. and Unilever N.V. (for Naamlooze Venootschap, or limited liability) as two separate holding companies that divide Unilever's assets but pool its profits. Each has a board of directors that controls the board of the other. This tail-chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started out as a $4.20-a-week junior statistician with United Africa...
Apparently anxious not to run afoul of the SEC, Kirby denied that he was planning a proxy war, said that he would be content simply to fight the Murchisons' I.D.S. scheme in the courts. But many Wall Streeters believed it was only a matter of time till the bell rang for Round 2 of the great Alleghany fight...