Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the guerrillas' plan to participate in national elections first surfaced, the "Building," as the Foreign Service calls its Washington headquarters, rejected the scheme out of hand. "Wrong thing to do," said Baker, who immediately ordered a more welcoming response. Telegraphing a willingness to consider the F.M.L.N.'s proposal had a twofold purpose: first, to let U.S. Latin allies know that the Bush Administration is taking a fresh look at Central America. Second, to signal to congressional opponents of the Reagan policy that Bush will consider any new option, no matter the origin. "Getting the edge, in Central America especially...
...issues involved now are almost completely different from those of 1975. Today, minority groups in Boston are the ones hesitant to embrace the desegregation scheme. And although the shadow of racial politics still hangs over the current debate, everyone involved--white and Black--agrees that the Boston Public School System must remain desegregated...
This charge came during a press conference before the annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Boston on January 16, two weeks after the School Committee had already adopted controlled choice as a framework for a desegregation scheme...
...Harvard freshman and his high school classmate are receiving nationwide attention for a scheme they devised to demonstrate how easy it is to cheat on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...This affair will not be covered up." So promised Pierre Beregovoy, the French Finance Minister, as he announced a criminal probe last week into an insider-trading scandal that is causing major embarrassment to Francois Mitterrand's government. The suspected scheme was uncovered when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission noticed heavy trading in Triangle Industries, a U.S. holding company, in the days prior to the Nov. 21 announcement of the company's takeover by Pechiney S.A., a French metals conglomerate. Estimated profits by insiders who bought early: $10 million...