Word: scheme
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Walsh is accused of heading a scheme to defraud Dime Savings Bank of New York of approximately $8 million to finance condominium developments in Massachusetts...
...Ibsen's play A Doll's House, Nora walks out of her domestic prison and slams the door. When men try to behave decently and pay the bills and be good fathers, and then are informed for their trouble that they are not only unimportant in the scheme of things but also vicious and piggish, they may become sufficiently disillusioned to slam the door themselves -- pre- emptively. They are warned off. A man begins to think that marriage is a very foolish choice, an overrated idea...
...President's scheme barely survives a week of body blows...
...Riordan, a lawyer and former venture capitalist long practiced in cajoling the private and public sectors into cooperating with each other. "We're in this for the long run," says Roger Greaves, chairman of Health Net, a large California HMO and one of the 10 major companies in the scheme. "In an area as large as L.A. it just makes so much sense to telecommute. People are happier because they don't have to fight the traffic, and they get more work done." When an 800-number line was set up for companies interested in establishing satellite offices, more than...
Sandel is certainly not alone in predetermininga target grading scale. For example, BakerProfessor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61follows a similar scheme in Social Analysis 10,which followed Justice last semester as the secondmost popular course...