Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agrees. Last month he urged a coast-to-coast Higher Horizons program, costing up to $100 million, to be run by an agency patterned after the National Science Foundation. In Washington last week, top officials of the prestigious American Council on Education mulled ways to get Plaut's scheme started. As one of them put it: "Unlike gold, human talent is perishable. We can't let it lie in the hills until we get ready to mine...
Aware of Washington's rising anxiety, Bonn talks of a new, $710 million aid scheme for underdeveloped areas, to be financed partly by private industry. But this project is vague and undefined, and the government has not thrown its full weight behind it. Nor is there assurance that businessmen will go along; significantly, Wirtschaftsdienst, the influential organ of industry, recently complained that Germany's own internal expansion requires all the spare cash available. But, although Konrad Adenauer would be able to protest that another election is coming up, it looked as if the Germans might be hooked for at least...
...archaeologists, in their attempt to relate Biblical history to known events in ancient history, reconstructed parts of the 4,000 year record of the town of Shechem. The team also calculated a more complete dating scheme for the later period beginning at the reign of Alexander the Great...
...Senate in 1954, Kennedy was the first Massachusetts Senator or Representative to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. His longshoremen constituents were furious, and the New England press dubbed him "the Suicide Senator" for supporting a scheme that could only damage the port of Boston. But Kennedy reasoned that Canada would undoubtedly build the seaway alone if the U.S. held aloof, decided that the nation might as well share in its ultimate benefits...
Allen replied that while more efforts may be needed, the scheme Lederer proposed might too closely resemble the approach of totalitarian countries...