First proposed in 1941, and kept alive ever since by a complacent Congress, the Yazoo Pumps may well be the most daft in a long line of environmentally destructive schemes undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers at Congress's request.
Without faith to elevate it, he writes, "reason" became an instrument of irrational rationalism that produced the most destructive schemes of human improvement - a "faith in progress" that grew into "progress in evil".
For the effort to truly equalize education to succeed, Congress will need to fight off destructive schemes by lobbyists and bureaucrats of both parties who are working hard to undermine the new initiative and to preserve the bad old status quo.
This grossly destructive commercial scheme has long been planned and urged (though water as pure and abundant can be got from sources outside of the people's park, in a dozen different places), because of the comparative cheapness of the dam and of the territory which it is sought to divert from the great uses to which it was dedicated in the Act of 1890 establishing the Yosemite National Park.
He excoriates as "destructive compensation schemes" such common practices as granting cost-of-living adjustments or automatic raises when employees achieve certain levels of education or seniority.
There was no moral content in either title, even though they are reporting one of the most destructive financial fraud schemes in history.
Nyerere's calm, dignified, scholarly demeanor enabled him to rake in billions of dollars in foreign aid, all of it wasted on destructive government-run economic schemes, including a Soviet-style attempt at collective agriculture that further impoverished an already poor area and led to enormous suffering.
Sadly, driving companies out of the scheme completely is about as destructive as it gets.
(5) Diversification frequency : it represents the shuffling diversification frequency or the destructive diversification frequency, depending on which diversification scheme is used (we set it to 50).
This process being non-destructive provides an efficient fish quality assessment scheme in real time.
Under the proposed in-line Raman scheme, a non-contact, non-destructive analysis was performed using WAI Raman probes with a spot size of 6 mm.
