Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer to pollution is a scheme that has proved successful in the Ruhr. Flowing through West Germany's most concentrated industrial region, the river remains clean enough for swimming and boating within the shadow of smoke stacks - all because of the Ruhrverband, a cooperative society of 250 municipalities and 2,200 industries along the river. The society gets results with a simple principle: he who pollutes the waters must pay the cost of purification. Carefully calculated assessments have enabled the Verband to build 102 purification plants since 1948, and encourage members to clean up their own wastes. The Ruhr...
...leisure. The trend is to reduce the time that men work through longer vacations, sabbaticals, earlier retirement. Such benefits constituted nearly half of last fortnight's steel settlement. The United Auto Workers operate under a contract granting them bereavement pay, funeral leave and Christmas bonuses. Their "supplemental allowance" scheme is known to members as the Honeydew Project-because the men can retire earlier, go home, and hear their wives say, "Honey, do this-Honey, do that." Senior auto and steelworkers get 13 weeks' annual vacation. The United Brewery Workers are contractually given the right to drink as much...
...IPCRESS FILE. A dim-sighted counterspy gamely foils a scheme to scramble British brainpower...
...richest nation to cut back its spending abroad to stem the outflow of dollars. Such terms as gold outflow and balance of payments have become a part of daily language, a subject for the editorialists and cartoonists; Al Capp's current Li'I Abner strip is based on a scheme to solve the U.S. balance-of-payments problem...
...IPCRESS FILE. A counterspy gamely foils a scheme to scramble British brainpower...