Word: schemings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schmidt stirred up other apprehensions about what Washington regarded as West Germany's self-centered approach to economic problems. A key example: Schmidt's vigorous campaign for the European Monetary System, which, except for the British pound, ties European Community currencies together within a narrow band of fluctuation. The scheme was originally devised as a protective measure for Europe against the gyrations of the dollar. But as the deutsche mark became an increasingly popular reserve currency in the treasuries of many countries, some economists suspected Schmidt was chauvinistically trying to create a "mark zone" that would eventually rival the dollar...
...scheme, announced late in the fall, angered many Cambridge residents who accused Harvard of further tightening the already puny Cambridge housing market. "It's like putting lemon drops in front of those speculators--they just drool and drool at the thought," City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said when he heard the proposal...
KENNEDY. His revised plan, announced Last Monday, would require that all Americans, regardless of income or age, be covered. He has backed away from his earlier advocacy of making the Government the basic insurer. Instead, he would inject competition into the scheme by letting people choose whether they wanted to be protected by a consortium of commercial insurance companies, by Blue Cross-Blue Shield, or by joining independent group health plans or health maintenance organizations (H.M.O.s). Employers would be liable for the premium payments, estimated at $11.4 billion a year more than they pay now, but they could require workers...
CARTER. The details are still being worked out by HEW, which has taken so long on the plan that a White House aide reports: "Carter is pissed off with Califano." Now expected to be made public later this year, the scheme would expand Medicare and Medicaid benefits for the aged and the poor. In addition, it would give those unprotected by company or public plans a chance of buying insurance at a "reasonable" cost, although that figure has not yet been determined. This insurance, subsidized by the Government, would provide a "core benefit package," including hospital and physician services...
Though the plan would likely reverse the recent trend of growing ridership, Transportation Secretary Brock Adams insists that it is constructive. Still, he has pushed it in Congress mainly as a handy device for saving perhaps $300 million a year. Congress, which must reject or acquiesce in the scheme by May 22, has so far seemed woefully ready to let it go into effect without substantial changes...