Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SLAVE and THE TOILET. The color scheme is black and white, and Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones whiplashes both races in his studies of interracial love and hate...
...killed more than 170 Indians and Negroes in the months before the election, Burnham has formed a coalition Cabinet of many colors. His Cabinet includes Negroes, East Indians and whites-all working to patch up the country's sugar and bauxite economy. One of Jagan's pet schemes was a mandatory national "savings plan," under which the government automatically deducted 5% from every worker's wages and put the money into a government-run fund. When Jagan left, the treasury did not have enough funds to pay back the $3,650,000 collected under the plan. Burnham...
...Urgency. Giscard d'Estaing's proposal is unlikely to win much support for France. The major nations hold substantial reserves in dollars and pounds, and any weakening of those currencies would hurt them too. De Gaulle's scheme has at least lent urgency to the debate over the world monetary system. Britain is keen to revise that system, and last week Lyndon Johnson pointed out that the U.S. is exploring means of broadening the base for international finance (see U.S. BUSINESS). The majority of financial policymakers believe that new monetary reserves must be created, but the problem...
Probing for answers at the Common Cold Research Unit at Harvard Hospital (named for a World War II U.S. project) near Stonehenge, Dr. Andrewes set up an ingenious scheme for testing much of the folklore about colds, and for doing highly technical virology in a search for preventives and cures. Volunteer couples, including several newlyweds, were invited to spend ten free days in the hospital's small guest apartments; they even got cigarette money. But in return, they had to submit to some chilling experiments...
...believe that this golden future, however desirable in theory, is nearly impossible to achieve in practice. After De Gaulle's press conference, British and West German government leaders said that they took a dim view of a return to the gold standard. The U.S. Treasury declared that the scheme would produce economic warfare: nations would demand that their foreign debtors pay off fully and immediately in gold-and many countries would not have enough gold to go around. Many nations would then have to embargo gold, raise tariffs, restrict trade. At a recent meeting in Bellagio, Italy...