Word: scheme
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...American scheme of things, Congress should have a powerful voice. Congress has drearily been undistinguished, afflicted by the spirit of the age. It is a much fragmented assortment of 634 individuals, each with separate interests and agendas. Party discipline is slack...
...book exchange program began in 1961, whenthe Library of Congress established an office inNew Delhi to spend monies received from India forAmerican grain. The United States devised the bookpurchasing scheme as one way of spending grainpayments, totaling billions of ruppees, which areworthless in America...
Bennett has sent letters to the presidents of all colleges and universities that participate in the GSL program, notifying them of the scheme...
...Washington summit. Unless the U.S. was willing to talk about ways to limit Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative program, he would prefer to pass up Thanksgiving at the ranch. Barely a year after he had done much the same in Reykjavik, Gorbachev pulled off a bait-and-switch scheme at Reagan's expense, luring him into high- level, high-visibility diplomacy only to shock and infuriate the Administration at the last minute by holding summitry hostage to American concessions on Star Wars...
...effort to control Jaffna, the Tamils' last major stronghold, India last week increased its Tiger-fighting force to an estimated 11,000. A scheme to isolate Tamil leaders by offering conditional amnesty to the rebels' rank and file fizzled, however, when no Tigers accepted the offer...