Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capecchi has found that the amount of this amino acid found in E. coli is consistent with their proposal. And within a few months, he believes, we may know if this scheme can be generalized to all systems, including mammals...
...sustain it for any protracted length of time. Brecht's play, as Mayer presents it, is a visual extravaganza. For once in a Loeb production the costumes--fiery red for the Gods, warm tans, greens and yellows for everyone else--have some relevance to the set's color scheme. But the set shakes frighteningly. The set, like the ensemble scenes in the first and second acts still needs a few day's work...
...President's major congressional victory of the week, the Senate's grudging passage of a minuscule $12 million appropriation to launch a Great Society rent-subsidy program, was achieved only with herculean effort. Part of a $2.8 billion supplemental appropriations bill for this fiscal year, the rent scheme met determined resistance from Republicans, who argued that it would inevitably require far more than the initial seed money, and from Southern Democrats, who feared it would lead to further racial integration...
Operation Igloo. The rent program has had rocky going right from the very beginning. Intended to help handicapped, low-income and other needy families pay their rent in nonprofit private housing, the scheme was authorized last summer by Congress, which thereupon withheld the appropriations to get it started. This year, House Republicans mounted a bruising floor fight and barely failed to scuttle the rent-subsidy funds; last week, in the Senate Appropriations Committee, Republicans and Southern Democrats succeeded in eliminating them...
There is apparently one other possibility: destroying the present tunnels under the kiosk and having the subways turn sharply at Harvard Square and swing directly up Massachusetts Ave. But this scheme involves huge engineering problems, and therefore, a considerable financial strain...