Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long." Ironically enough, it took a member of one of Genoa's most conservative old-line families, Shipping Magnate Giacomo Costa, 61, to make the first move to clean up the city's mercantile morass. For Genoa, Costa's scheme was downright startling. Concluding that the only long-term solution to the city's port problem was to look for space elsewhere, he got the backing of 170 leading Genoese businessmen, built a new landlocked "port" on the other side of the Apennines, 40 miles inland at Rivalta Scrivia. Linked...
...mean, think of the color scheme of Swtizerland. It's white, blue, and green--at its best...
...advisory commission (TIME, March 10), last week proposed to Congress some sweeping revisions of the system, notably: 1) inducting younger men first rather than the oldest eligible for service, 2) ending deferments for most graduate students and giving serious consideration to withdrawing undergraduate deferments, and 3) substituting a lottery scheme for the present selection by birth date...
...shrewdly defused disputation in advance by taking a flexible position on the touchy questions of undergraduate deferment and whether to replace or reorganize the system of local draft boards. Nor does he intend to rush out executive orders-as he has the power to do-to implement the lottery scheme and some other proposals. Congress has until June 30 to renew and amend the draft law, and in so doing it may apply legislative controls to some areas in which the President now has sole jurisdiction. But Johnson's go-slow approach gives Congress time to make its views...
...financial distress: the billion-dollar offset payments that Bonn makes yearly to support U.S. and British forces in Germany. Contending that Bonn no longer had the financial health to afford such large payments, Kiesinger stuck to his position until the U.S. last week suggested a new, less painful monetary scheme under which Bonn may buy Treasury bonds to offset the outflow of dollars from the U.S. Softly underlining his determination to be his own master, Kiesinger made his first state visit to Paris. But he will probably go to Washington in June before his second scheduled meeting with Charles...