Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty program's obvious flaws as powerful ammunition, the G.O.P. House leadership aimed to dismantle the Office of Economic Opportunity altogether. The plan was to carve up the program's appendages among existing Government departments while, at the same time, substantially reducing overall antipoverty appropriations. The scheme seemed persuasive to many conservative Southerners and normally liberal big-city Democrats, who complain that local politicians do not have enough control over many OEO projects in their areas. After last summer's riots, there was bitter talk about not rewarding rioters, and the plan's success seemed...
...board of canvassers, Krupa dropped from the registration lists the names of 5,286 voters, mostly Negroes. At the same time, hundreds of fictitious registrations were added so that paid impostors could cast ballots against Hatcher. Since his winning margin last week was only 1,389 votes, the scheme undoubtedly would have worked...
Last May, the MBTA announced that it planned to adopt the so-called "Scheme D" for its extension up Massachusetts Avenue. Under this plan, it would build an expanded Harvard Square Station, to be located under the Avenue, parallel to Strauss and Lionel Halls...
...seems to be running against Lyndon Johnson, retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, and assorted other Democrats. However, Henry Ward, the Democratic candidate, happens to agree with Nunn on most questions affecting the state. The race is so lacking in substance that Ward, conceding that he has "no grand sort of scheme," tells voters: "Whether the people like it or not, they're going to have me or Nunn. If they say, 'We don't much want Ward,' why just consider the alternative...
...road south from Katmandu toward Calcutta. The Russians have chipped in with a cigarette plant and a sugar refinery. The U.S. is working on rural development, malaria eradication, family planning and education. It also hopes to participate, along with India, Britain and Russia, in Mahendra's most ambitious scheme: a third major highway that will open up the fertile ricelands to the impoverished Nepalese mountain tribes...