Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheer Poppycock." Taking the Senate floor to scuttle the scheme, Russell pooh-poohed the notion that the CIA makes U.S. foreign policy ("sheer poppycock"), warned that an enlarged committee would only increase the possibility of security leaks that could endanger the lives of the agency's "sources." What privately troubled many Senators was that the anti-Viet Nam war, power-is-arrogance clique that dominates Fulbright's committee might not be the most objective overseers of the nation's most important intelligence...
...attitude is reflected in the curious scheme for a meeting of speakers from East Germany's Communist Party and West Germany's opposition Social Democrats to debate reunification (TIME, April 15). In both East and West Germany it has become the top topic of private and public debate, even though Ulbricht probably raised the idea in the first place because he thought neither Social Democrats nor Christian Democrats would take it seriously. When the Social Democrats accepted, naming May as an appropriate time, Ulbricht imposed what would in earlier years have been insuperable conditions. He demanded public debates...
First to try the credit-card scheme on a large scale was Los Angeles' Beneficial Insurance Group, which teamed up with the Diners' Club in 1959. After a slow start, Beneficial's card-catered insurance business grew 40% last year; to date, the company has sold 170,000 policies worth $4 billion. Now offered through a dozen more credit issuers, the company's accident policies range from $6,000 to $198,000 at monthly premiums from...
Such other industries as transportation, communication, fishing and agriculture will be repaid what they are taxed. Service industries, from barbers to bankers, will get no refund at all. Though the scheme will milk $882 million out of the British economy during the fiscal year ending next April, the government still expects its $25.7 billion budget to run $800 million...
What the sociology department asks for is understandable, if vague: "the inauguration as rapidly as possible, in place of the present system, of a scheme of reasonable rules and due processes, legislated as far as may be by those most nearly affected...