Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Professor Parsons, the new course, Sociology 6c, will take the conceptual scheme of modern economic theory as its starting point. Stress will be laid on the extent to which economic theory is an abstract conceptual scheme which must be related in its action to other elements in society...
...Requiring a reviewing Court to weigh evidence, substitute its judgment for the Board's, "has been universally condemned by students of American law." Half the legal experts think this scheme would paralyze administrative agencies, half think it would paralyze the courts...
...military command has carefully studied this scheme for our assistance. Its details have been exhaustively discussed. It has been found to be effective in every respect. Yet it contains one weak point. How are these reinforcements to reach this country? The geographical situation of Finland places difficulties in the way. So long as the Baltic Sea is closed, that sea route is out of the question. The route to Petsamo is long and difficult, and it is, further, held by the enemy...
...Spiral of Inflation." To irate critics who call the whole ?400 million scheme a "forced loan," Professor Keynes is tireless in his calm, persuasive retorts. He starts by asking everyone to remember how, during World War I, prices rose much faster than wages (as they are again doing in Britain), argues that even though war wages run high, the working class suffers an actual loss in "real wages" from this "spiral of inflation." It is obviously much more to the workers' advantage, he insists, to be left at the end of the war with a packet...
...finally decided not to segregate the fields of concentration, and it has worked out very well. I hope the planners of the unit reach a similar decision, for the full value can be gotten from the scheme only if all the graduate students live together, thus permitting an exchange of ideas...