Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee to beautify the capital, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall's man on the spot to improve the Mall, Owings also rides herd on the committee to redesign Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol ? Washington's "grand axis" in Pierre L'Enfant's original scheme. Appointed to the committee by John F. Kennedy in 1962, the architect has moved his bulldozer capabilities into high gear, taking every available scrap of power "on the theory that if I was not supposed to have it, someone would tell me." President Johnson helped by appointing eight Cabinet members...
...again in one and one-half minutes, all its energy compressed into that time, building to the inevitable release of seeing from Paul's point-of-view Audran's red dress against Marnie-green wallpaper. The clash of red and green is foreign to the film's established color scheme, and its psychological impact is cathartic...
...Flagrant Few. the The insurers' plan thus differs from the widely discussed reforms proposed by Law Professors Robert Keeton of Harvard and Jeffrey O'Connell of the University of Illinois. In most accident cases, their "Basic Protection" scheme calls for a motorist's own insurance company to pay him, his passengers and any pedestrians he hits, regardless of who was to blame for an accident. "We don't think it would be fair to eliminate the idea of fault completely," says the Alliance's Wise, "and require injured persons to insure themselves...
...franc, the Bank for International Settle ments and central banks of five countries (the U.S., Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and West Germany) agreed to provide Paris with short-term credits totaling $1.3 billion. At the same time, the Basel conferees sought to dampen gold speculation by devising a scheme by which South Africa is expected to resume its sales on the world's bullion markets. In view of all this, the price of gold on the London market last week went down to $39.10 per oz.-the first time it has dropped to under $40 in nearly two months...
...Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, West Germany and the U.S. Another participant in the negotiations was France, which opted out of the credit scheme because of its own financial difficulties...