Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put it, "We would have preferred to leave a token deployment of American missiles in Europe. Nitze's own walk-in-the-woods scheme would have been a far better outcome than the zero option from a strategic point of view. If, however, the U.S. allowed itself to be snookered by the Soviets into the damn-fool zero option, then we told Nitze in no uncertain terms that we wanted it to be a version of the zero option that extracted the maximum price from the Kremlin...
...strategy, and the pleasures of the flesh have marked this year's version of the Secret Santa tradition, as students scheme to delight their unwitting "Santees" with imaginative gift-giving...
...figures are there," Simon insisted in last week's NBC debate. But where are they? The most recent major federal jobs program, the Emergency Jobs Act of 1983, cost $4.5 billion while providing only 35,000 net jobs, or $128,000 per job. At this rate, Simon's scheme to take 7.2 million Americans off unemployment roles would cost $902 billion. Even with a more reasonable cost per job--even with a ridiculously low cost per job--it's hard to see how the new tax revenues will eliminate the $148 billion deficit...
...avoided being taken over during Wall Street's consolidation binge in the early 1980s. But the firm apparently grew faster than its supervisory structure could handle. In 1985 Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud for operating an elaborate check-kiting scheme in which the company's cash managers had used at least $10 billion from 400 banks without paying interest...
...should be allowed to move. It is time sports owners were stopped from jerking the public around with impunity. Until they are made to face the music, the robber barons who own professional sports franchises can congratulate themselves for devising one of the most slimy and ingenious money-grubbing scheme since investment banking...