American Plan

American Plan may refer to:

  • American Plan (union negotiations), a 1920s plan for eliminating closed shop unions
  • American Plan, a term used by Sydney Brenner for a model of how brain cells determine their neural functions
  • American Plan A lodging package which includes 3 meals a day. A Modified American Plan includes 2 meals, the Continental Plan offers a light ("continental") breakfast, and the European Plan does not cover any meals.
  • Graduated Random Presidential Primary System, a proposed reform of the United States presidential primary system
  • American Plan (for Haiti), a plan designed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to turn Haiti into a Caribbean Taiwan backed by Bill Clinton.

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or plan:

    We have yet to deal successfully with American transraciality in real terms, as we have failed to redefine race in light of the modern, twenty-first century progress of human kind.
    Virginia Hamilton (b. 1936)

    The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)