Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lead a worldwide march toward affluence. By then, it was abundantly equipped for the job. It had a wealth of natural resources, a scarcity of skilled labor that forced the pace of mechanization, and an immense domestic market that permitted cheap mass production, provided customers for almost any speculative scheme...
...Nielsen Co., which repeatedly warns its sample audience against such tampering attempts, uncovered and thwarted Sparger's scheme well before the air date of the Channing show. Nielsen sued Sparger for $1,500,000 for "impairment of confidence in the accuracy of the measurement service and the security of the sample." The suit also charged that 1) Sparger used privileged information gathered as a onetime congressional investigator of the ratings industry, and 2) he "concluded that it would be possible to obtain substantial sums of money [for rigging shows] on behalf of interested parties." The company immediately deployed private...
...Brandt could only abandon the whole project and denounce Norden's performance as "a total relapse into the positions of the cold war." Brandt was still determined to pursue open East-West discussion on questions of reunification. In fact, his Social Democrats were already toying with a compromise scheme to replace the speakers' exchange: revival of an old idea to invite East German politicians to speak in a televised panel discussion on West German...
...connective tissue to a lavish collection of cliches. No doubt the hundreds that occur in her book have been worn even smoother by constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught with danger," "outraged dignity," "food for thought," "kicking over the traces," "nefarious scheme," "accepted with alacrity," "wild disorders," "the handwriting on the wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they are all here, sometimes twice and sometimes in flocks: "The immediate result...
Costly Rendezvous. Eager to proceed with the planned docking of Gemini and ATDA, Stafford quickly suggested a solution: to nudge the obstructing shroud out of the way by flying up and hitting it gently with Gemini's docking bar. Safety-conscious controllers in Houston vetoed the scheme, instead electronically commanded ATDA's movable docking collar to extend and contract, in a vain try to shake the shroud loose. Another idea was to allow Astronaut Cernan to pry or cut the shroud loose during his scheduled space walk; this was also rejected for fear that the sharp edges might...