Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this grand scheme, intellectual life is built on social life, and social life is built on biological life, but the logic of each level is independent of logic on the other levels...
Although the plan could significantly affect the careers of several officers, few police officers said they were opposed to the scheme...
...institutions had a symbiotic relationship, according to sources inside B.C.C.I. The corrupt organization used Bank of America as an important resource in a global Ponzi scheme to collect deposits, funneling most of its cash in the U.S. into Bank of America accounts. At the same time, the flow of deposits helped prop up the struggling California bank during its hard times in the mid-1980s. "The B.C.C.I. headquarters money always flowed through Bank of America," says a former B.C.C.I. executive...
Under the council's "hare proportional vote" balloting scheme, voters indicate the order of preference they hold for candidates. Thus, candidates have a better chance of victory if they have a smaller group of voters who strongly support them rather than a larger group of voters who grudgingly support them, according to last year's council Secretary David L. Duncan...
...state scheme supported by Gov. William F. Weld '66 parallels the controlled choice system in that it allows parents in participating districts to send their children to other public schools besides their neighborhood one and would probably prove lucrative for Cambridge...