Word: scheme
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...offers fewer targets than usual for congressional critics: it is both short and old. Among the old: a hospital-cost containment bill that the House defeated last year; a new stand-by gasoline-rationing plan to replace one that the House shot down last spring; and a health-insurance scheme that Congress ignored in 1979, and probably will take no action on again this year. Carter said he would offer "few new initiatives," and the State of the Union message in fact contained only a handful. The most important: a $2 billion youth-employment plan; reorganization of the Nuclear Regulatory...
Minow proposes a more elaborate scheme to give political leaders additional influence. No delegate would be bound to any candidate if the primary vote is less than two-thirds of the party's registered voters. In practice, that would mean that almost all delegates would go to the convention uncommitted. Furthermore, independents would not be allowed to cast their ballots in the party primaries. Instead, they would have a vote of their own. The independent vote would have no official standing, but it would be taken into consideration by the party delegates when they attend the convention. They would...
...have plans to change the parking scheme in the making now, in response to our studies of the street," George Hewitt, an investigator for the department, said yesterday, adding that "It's a very bad blind corner where there've been a lot of problems...
...fuels. The subsidy could well double the domestic supply of liquid fuels in ten years. With that, and with more fuel-efficient cars, we would say goodbye forever to OPEC! Please, let's not piddle away the tax on relief of Social Security taxes or any other pet scheme of Congress's. This tax must be used only to buy energy independence...
...Captain Richard Howard Gorges, a raffish cavalry hero, was drummed out of his regiment for consorting with a Malay boy, and later joined the Royal Irish Regiment. His partner was Frank Shackleton, younger brother of Sir Ernest, the South Pole explorer; Frank tried desperately to float a get-rich scheme in Mexico. Shackleton also held an honorary post in Dublin Castle, where he became a protege of Sir Arthur Vicars, fuss-budget guardian of the Hibernian sparklers. Between all-male orgies in the castle and AC-DC frolics at the maison of one Daisy Newman, the cash-strapped Englishmen cooked...