Word: schemes
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...provocative entry." The Socialists have long talked darkly of the "threat" of a Habsburg restoration, though even the Habsburgs themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors for her son, even plotted unsuccessfully in the 1930s to marry him to Princess Maria of Italy in the hope that // Duce would present him with the Austrian throne. Of late, Otto has pledged loyalty to the republic. But after he won a battle in Austria...
With his development scheme, Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Razak is conducting his own Johnson-style "assault on poverty," which among other things has opened 200,000 acres of new farmland to 30,000 settlers. Since its founding in 1963, Malaysia has raised the G.N.P. of its 9.2 million people by an annual average...
...Theater Company of Boston's interpretation of The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (abbreviated Marat/Sade) owes much to the scheme of those who created it (abbreviate Weiss/Brook). Sired by Brecht, Artaud, Genet and Pirandello, conceived by the German filmmaker and novelist Peter Weiss, translated by Geoffrey Skelton, set to music by R. C. Peaslee, and delivered in London and New York by the Royal Shakespeare Company's Peter Brook, the play is not one man's play open to interpretation by other...
Only one major roadblock has prevented Detroit's auto engineers from turning their nostalgic dreams of an electric car into a practical scheme: lack of a battery with the capacity and durability to power a modern automo bile. Now that obstacle may have been removed. Ford Motor Co. scientists have demonstrated a miniature version of a new battery that promises to put the company in the electric-car business within the next ten years...
...possible solution, already under consideration by City officials, would be to create an urban renewal district around the Library site. The City, through its Redevelopment Authority, would then have to approve all new construction with the urban renewal area. But the success of the renewal scheme depends not only on the strength of the plan worked out by the City but also the amount of support it commands within the community -- the Library Corporation, local businessmen and residents, and the University. In Cambridge, such plans are often worked out in a vacuum; private interests stand aloof and, when the plan...