Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brief: Dr. Tom More, a psychologist/jailbird on parole for selling drugs, stumbles across a scheme to improve behavior patterns in Feliciana parish. His colleagues have spiked the water-supply with "molar sodium 24," a chemical substance that causes women to lose their sexual inhibitions (they present themselves rearward like primates), heightens children's school performances (verbal and mathematical scores rocket), and even helps to hone More's wife's tournament Bridge game: "This lady knows where the cards are. I don't know how she knows but she knows. I don't think she knows she knows either...
CRITICS WILL say such a scheme impedes the true student-athlete from playing against the best competition. Hogwash. Are college baseball players prevented from competing against the best players in the country in the College World Series? No. Are Harvard hockey players prevented from going to the national championships? Certainly...
...have volunteered to give up anywhere from 5% to 25% of their salaries to help make the buyout work. A representative of Lazard Freres, the investment banking firm that employees have enlisted to help raise cash for the takeover bid, pronounced the venture "viable." One notable believer in the scheme was Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who anted up a $1.5 million loan at the Chicago rally, where many of the attendees sported red-and-white BE UNITED, BUY UNITED buttons. Bailey's wife Patricia is a United flight attendant...
Probers suspect that former CIA Director William Casey played a dominant role in Iranscam, despite his proclaimed ignorance of the scheme. Casey, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor last December, resigned in January, and his physicians have maintained that he is unfit to testify. The lawmakers plan to send their own doctor to examine Casey and report on whether he is capable of delivering testimony. One investigator justifies this step by explaining that if Casey does not talk "we may never know" the extent of CIA involvement in the scandal...
...Columbia, according to freshman Mario E. Hurtado, nobody knows what goes on in the lottery, but that students plot, scheme and second-guess...