Word: schemings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tons of gray marble that lined the rock star's first tomb. Carwile had the marble cut into 44,000 chunks measuring 2 in. by 1 in., and last week, on the anniversary of Presley's death, announced he would sell the fragments for $80 each. The scheme might sound like monumental bad taste to anyone except a Presley fan. Says Carwile: "I'd feel guilty if I didn't share this with the fans...
...reconstructed by U.S. experts on the Middle East, the Arab scheme stemmed from P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat's growing difficulties earlier this year...
...then, Urcuyo had doubtless realized that his scheme had been a big mistake. Abandoned by the leader whose cause they had supported for so long, the national guard began to disintegrate. In a matter of hours, every one of Somoza's pilots, who had mercilessly bombed and strafed the barrios where the Sandinistas had their greatest support, had defected to neighboring countries. Soon Urcuyo flew to Guatemala and asked for asylum...
...maintenance, lighting adjustments, plugging leaky steam traps, recovering, installing insulation, and developing more efficient technologies to replace the existing capital stock. Indeed, it's the very banality of such measures that is the primary problem with conservation--the approach just doesn't lend itself to any heart-rending, grandiose scheme like the Manhattan Project or landing a man on the moon. But the Energy Project believes such simple measures could cut U.S. energy consumption by almost as much as all the oil, domestic as well as imported, used in the nation...
Only the very wealthy could carry on gardening on such a grand scale, of course; the vast majority of British gardens today are no larger than one-tenth of an acre. Through the National Gardens Scheme, a plan started in 1927 to raise money for charity, 1,250 private gardens are now open to the public. The owner may be a duchess in Mayfair or a police sergeant in Clapham; the garden, big as a country club or small as a driveway...