Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October. Significantly, most of those who are coming over the line are not civilians but defecting military - their uniforms allow them to get within striking distance of the frontier. To cut down on further escapes by people living near the border, the Communists are engaged in a mass-evacuation scheme; some 200,000 East Germans living near the line are being relocated in the East...
Dean von Stade has riled that the linen and laundry depot system in the Yard will continue until at least the end of the academic year. He said that he had found the system working "pretty well" in the past month and asked, "Why go back to the other scheme...
...third, and crippling new purchase taxes of from 10% to 67% were levied on imported goods from clothes to automobiles. But the taxes have only succeeded in cutting off imports; from July to September, customs duties were $3,000,000 less than expected. A new compulsory savings scheme requires wage earners making more than $28 a month to give the government 5% of their pay in exchange for government bonds; corporations and self-employed persons must shell out 10% of their gross earnings in return for the bonds. In a country where the average annual income is only...
Underlying the new scheme is the philosophy that the adviser should do more than just sign a study card. He should make himself more available to his advisee, be able to give advice on courses outside his own field, and be acquainted with such hazards of the first year as the famous November and January slumps...
...long heart ailment; in San Francisco. The son of a Civil War colonel, Downey started out as a Republican in Wyoming, migrated to Sacramento and the EPIC (End Poverty in California) movement of Author-Crusader Upton Sinclair, then as a regular Democrat supported Dr. Francis Townsend's scheme for old-age pensions and the "$30 Every Thursday" campaign...