Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bartleys' decoration seems to follow no scheme. Customers are struck immediately by the eclectic assortment of historical relics and political memorabilia...
...Bush Administration vetoed the plan. (The Democratic ticket is divided: Clinton supports it, Gore opposes.) Critics call the Oregon scheme "health- care rationing," which is exactly right. But as frustrated defenders of the plan note, we ration care now, except we do it irrationally. We pretend to believe in unlimited health care for all, thereby making it harder to provide decent health care to many. Our refusal to acknowledge that trade-offs are necessary -- including, yes, the ultimate trade-off between money and human life -- makes intelligent debate about intelligent trade-offs impossible...
Bush and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney furiously denied the Times story and the implication that the President would attack Saddam to give himself a boost in the polls. But the two men were being disingenuous in their categorical dismissal of the Times report, since there was a secret scheme to attack Saddam if the U.N. team's mission had ended in failure. A few days later, the allies announced plans to carve out a security zone in southern Iraq, home of a persistent Shi'ite insurgency, that would be off limits to Saddam's combat aircraft. "We are not doing...
Phar-Mor said Monus, 44, and chief financial officer Patrick Finn, 34, both fired two weeks ago, funneled about $10 million of company funds into the struggling World Basketball League, which folded Aug. 1. The firm says the two men participated in a scheme to cook the company's books, forcing it to write off $350 million -- including the allegedly stolen funds and $340 million in overstated profits. The privately held concern has dismissed auditor Coopers & Lybrand, which it blamed for failing to spot the fraud. The accounting firm says Phar-Mor's move was "apparently designed to posture, bluster...
Because many Ivy League schools were absent from the sheet and some non-Ivies--Stanford and MIT--were listed, Rudenstine said the paper showed no evidence of a scheme within the Ivy League...