Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean Courtney Brown of Columbia's business school. "We're trying to develop business minds with adaptability, perception and conviction." Even Harvard business school, the most prestigious of them all, has overhauled its whole curriculum, and next month will graduate the first class taught under the new scheme. Many businessmen agree that a noticeable change has occurred. William B. Murphy, president of Campbell Soup and this year's chief of the Business Council, speaks for many when he contends that "both the quality of the training and the graduates rises every year...
...early retirement age is another peculiarity of the Harvard tenure scheme that seems to work against the best interests of the University. In recent years, the Dean of the Faculty has sought to retain the services of elderly men who are still capable of productive work by allowing them to stay on for two or, in some cases, four extra years. According to Fleming, "such a high proportion of the Faculty is asked to stay on that those who are allowed to retire are deeply hurt." As a result, a professor who has the slightest doubt about being asked...
...indicted two top officials for running what may be the most brazen traffic-fine racket in the U.S. For six years, charged the jury, Greenwood Village used the public highways as a "personal toll road" that raked in $100,000 for the town by means of "a court scheme that was a sham, a mockery, a fraud and simply a system to exact tribute from unsuspecting motorists...
Answers to such questions fill a 287-page data-packed report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepared by Honeywell Inc. Once they started working on the problems of personal space flight control, Honeywell engineers were soon tangled in startling complexities. The most obvious scheme was one of the first to be discarded. Levers similar to the conventional aircraft control stick would be all but impossible of operation by a man with his arms in the stiff sleeves of an inflated space suit. And more important, an astronaut's hands would have to be free for a variety...
...Training and Development Act, a proposed Administration on Aging, passage of aid to Appalachia. The new bills call for vast new federal thrusts into the area of federal paternalism. In F.D.R.'s day, both undoubtedly would have been denounced as socialistic, if not part of a downright Communist scheme to undermine American private enterprise and individual initiative...