Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This scheme does not give any benefit to the individual employee. The benefits come in the form of 1) more secure jobs as the stock capital of the firm is increased, making more investment capital available, 2) more influence on company decision, and 3) a more equal distribution of wealth...
...turn over the majority of the shares of most companies into the hands of the employees. Whether this plan will come off or not I don't know, but there is a general agreement in Sweden--with the exception of the conservative party and the employers associations--that some scheme has to be put into effect to raise more investment capital, to create a more equal distribution of wealth and influence by spreading the shareholding in some...
...behave in every conceivable circumstance, from defecation to urination to sexual intercourse to eating to cleaning the teeth. Khomeini does give attention to human frailties; he says, in essence, 'If you don't do it this way, well, if you feel bad, that's okay.' But the scheme is appallingly oppressive to us Westerners, in that there is a right way and a wrong way to do everything...
...campaign. The pragmatic Nkomo, who represents the minority Ndebele tribal groups, is seeking total unity among the guerrilla factions. The left-leaning Mugabe, backed by the far more numerous Shona, sees a chance of winning outright a parliamentary majority and is reluctant to commit himself to any power-sharing scheme. In fact some observers believe this very issue caused a recent falling out between Mugabe and Tongogara, who had been a staunch advocate of guerrilla unity. The British sponsors of the settlement could only hope that such rivalries would not frustrate the prevailing desire of a long-suffering people. Said...
...dramatic style is all too literally geratic. His method of shifting mood from farce to pathos is to slow down the tempo of the soundtrack score. He telegraphs each plot point so far ahead that every event seems like a repetition: when Burns silently dreams up his robbery scheme, one can almost see a bulb turn on over his head. Many scenes are mercilessly padded with gratuitous reaction shots or pointless bits of local color; for this director, the shortest distance between two points is a figure eight...