Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Political Scientist Karl Deutsch elaborated a theory that certain employers, such as sanitation departments, perpetuate poverty by exploiting low-paid labor. As he sees it, low-paid occupations ranging from domestic service to teaching may have to be subsidized. Jerome Monod, the French planner, also described a sweeping scheme for reconstructing the entire south of France, including new industrial cities, research centers and universities...
...class has the heaviest tax burden, but almost everywhere lower-middle-class whites feel that they are being forced to pay the real price of in tegration while assorted social planners and liberal moralists retreat at night to their suburban fastnesses. Such whites view bussing, for example, as a scheme to move their chil dren to worse public schools while rich children escape to pri vate schools. In typical response, a West Coast carpenter moonlights without reporting his side income. "Screw the Government," he says. "They just give it to some black bas tard anyway for doing nothing...
...work toward abolishing it - re placing it with an evenhanded guaranteed annual wage or family allowance that would clearly help the lower middle class as well as the poor. White workers, however, would have to be persuaded that such an allowance did not represent simply another something-for-nothing scheme...
...never redly intended it to be set up exclusively for charitable purposes. Though ABC knew that this was contrary to federal statutes governing tax-free foundations, the state charged, the outfit tried to conceal the fact by enjoining its clients to absolute secrecy. "The cleverness of the scheme," said California Deputy Attorney General H. Warren Siegel, "was to get you to join by saying 'Only we have this plan,' and then saying 'Don't tell anyone what we told you or we'll boot you out.' And then no one would know until after...
...jacketed. Later released, he returns to his old school desk to die the death of all Expressionist heroes. But Sternberg ends the film with shots of Dietrich, the burning Romantic figure and object, so that even in the person of the protagonists Sternberg's system triumphs over the Expressionistic scheme...