Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington. A proposal to require localities to adopt plans for controlling growth was rejected. The measure enjoyed broad support in polls taken in September. Then developers, realtors and other businesses began a $1.6 million campaign warning that the scheme would lead to higher property taxes and housing prices and transfer local power to the state capital. On Election Day the initiative was buried...
This crude tactic affronted voters of all faiths. It also drowned out Boschwitz's attack on Wellstone's expensive proposals for a national health- care scheme and other ambitious programs. The result was a 51%-49% vote for the outsider destined to star in the Senate's left wing. Says Wellstone's campaign manager, Sam Kaplan: "He'll be in Jesse Helms' face all the time...
...city has stopped large projects before," said Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55. "You are coming to us with a tunnel in Charlestown and other parts of the project you have started and basically you are saying that all we can do is accept scheme...
...going to accept Scheme...
...while the sentiment of the room was overwhelmingly against Scheme Z, a few city residents voiced support for the controversial plan...