Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a resolution calling for the end of class-ranks as a facet in deferment would have passed, as would a more general resolution urging the abolition of student deferments. Not even Tax suggested that the conference support compulsory national service, and debate on variations of the national service scheme was so diffuse that specific proposals could not be assembled...
...something of what must be Yevtushenko's great quality in his native tongue comes through in at least one poem in the Marshall translation, his uncompleted "epic" composition, Brat-sky GES (Bratsk State Hydroelectric Power Station). There is special pleasure in these episodes where the original metrical scheme does not call for rhymes above and beyond the call of the English language, and where...
...unhealthy numbers game," the Administration substituted a scheme that curtailed both the freshman's and the Master's assignments and thus assumed the central role. But this procedure only evoked the harsh criticism of some Masters and students who wanted a large choice for themselves...
...Mayor John Lindsay's overriding concern. "It's a battle we must win," he says. "If we lose, we lose everything." In its desperation, New York has set up a Public Development Corporation, headed by General Lucius Clay, to tempt industry by assembling sites. Adopting a controversial scheme that began in the South, the corporation also plans to finance some plants with tax-exempt bonds...
...Gandhi had a scheme of her own. She intended to use Nanda's ouster as an opportunity to reshuffle the Cabinet, which she had inherited almost intact from Lai Bahadur Shastri and had so far been unable to alter. Her plan was to give the Home Ministry to able Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan and install other favorites in the finance and commerce slots...