Word: schemes
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...Equals $12 Million. In 1962 Tino set out on a fantastic scheme to corner the entire market in soybeans. He plunged into commodities futures, a frantic market of paper and promises, where fortunes are made or lost on fluctuations of a fraction of a penny. Betting that the price of soybeans would rise, Tino bought huge contracts for future deliveries of soybeans from other speculators who in turn were betting that the market would fall. He was helped by the fact that commodities markets work on bargain-basement margins of 5% to 15%-that is, big traders need...
...huge subterranean pipelines that will carry industrial waste and scrap to the coast, dump them into the ocean and form new land. "Under green fields, under our feet," writes an awed British journalist, "the thick current of Germany's yesterday will creep endlessly down to the sea." The scheme is symbolic of contemporary Germany; for 20 years, its people have sought to eliminate the rubbish of their past and build anew...
...Ambassador to Luxembourg, Mrs. Harris will be the top U.S. diplomatic representative in a 999-square-mile grand duchy. The job is generally considered a protocol post, rarely if ever held by foreign-service careerists (one of Mrs. Harris' predecessors was Perle Mesta). But in the U.S. scheme of things it is a public honor, and one for which Patricia Harris has qualified...
...National Guard that would be more combat-ready and much less a political plaything. The Army is presently the only service that uses the draft, and Ailes would like to reduce the Army's dependence on it; he has played a leading part in drawing up a novel scheme to put about 60,000 volunteers, who have previously failed to qualify, through an intensive rehabilitation program to make them physically and mentally able to soldier properly...
...Huntington, professor of Government, who helped prepare the committee's report, yesterday said that the central problem is that the expanding number of men now eligible for the draft far outstrips the needs of the military. Thus the draft board is faced with eliminating men according to a rational scheme...