Word: scheme
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...SCHEME AT&T ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK A blessing or a blight? Those who can't bear to be out of touch will love the company's new EasyReach 700 service, which gives subscribers a lifelong telephone number that is assigned to the person, not to a particular phone line. Those who think the telephone is already too intrusive will probably want to reach out and touch someone with a baseball...
Claiming to have uncovered possible evidence of "a classic check-kiting scheme," the Justice Department counsel, Malcolm R. Wilkey, requested the bank records for all the members of Congress -- those who had been cited for overdrafts as well as 170 who hadn't. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley and other Democrats argued that the sweeping subpoena violated the members' right of privacy, as well as Congress's constitutionally guaranteed independence. But fears of inciting more voter outrage over the check-bouncing scandal -- which has focused mainly on their party -- won the day: 131 Democrats joined the unanimous Republicans to defeat...
...passage says 'the widespread increase inthe use of 'nigger'...may well be part of a muchlarger ethnic scheme designed to denigrateAfro-Americans and keep them as the focus ofnegative attention for the American majority...
Like, for instance, a certain North American superpower. When the Expo turf was carved up in 1985, the U.S. was given the second biggest site. Architect Barton Myers produced a respectable design, but Congress dithered and finally appropriated a measly $13 million to build it. In the end, Myers' scheme, except for a few details, was dumped. There are no roof, no sides, no back, only a front wall consisting of cheap wire mesh nailed to cheap metal studs. Inside sit a pair of geodesic domes previously used in trade shows, two huge Peter Max murals that look like souvenir...
Prosecutors say McNamara was running a gigantic Ponzi scheme, covering bad loans by taking out bigger ones. He was charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, and faces a possible prison sentence of as long as 30 years. McNamara has pledged most of his wealth -- including homes in New York and Florida and a private jet -- to make bail, set at a stunning $300 million...