Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first year in office, Rudenstine has devised a masterly scheme designed "to bring the institution to gether... to get everybody in the habit of thinking of everyone else's problems...
...replace welfare with a guaranteed- employment program: he would prohibit new people from being added to the welfare rolls, eliminating handouts and offering instead day care and WPA- type jobs on useful public projects -- sweeping streets, building roads and parks, doing clerical work and the like. David Ellwood's scheme, which has strongly influenced Clinton's proposals, would convert welfare into a system of short-term, transitional support lasting no more than three years, after which minimum-wage government jobs would be offered to those who couldn't find work in the private sector...
...last year approved it in principle, but denied it serious funding and required, in a typical cut-the-baby-in-half compromise, that another housing-project unit must be built for each one that is turned over to tenant ownership. The White House budget office has calculated that this scheme would cost about $100,000 a unit, and that tenants as well as taxpayers would be better served by a simple system of vouchers that the poor could use to buy or rent housing from private owners...
WEED AND SEED. Attorney General William Barr and Budget Director Richard Darman have pushed a scheme that would "weed" career criminals out of inner- city neighborhoods through massive sweeps by federal and local lawmen, and would continue to pacify these areas with intensive "community policing." These neighborhoods would then be "seeded" with social programs such as drug treatment, youth recreation and job training. Sixteen cities are set to receive $1 million each under the pilot program this year, and Bush has requested $500 million more in his budget now before Congress...
INEVER REALLY was that interested in the final club scene. Still, that scene was never interested in me--a fact which threw a wrench in my grand scheme of self-righ-teousness...