Word: scheme
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Furthermore Harvard's pass rush could record only one sack on the day, and rarely put pressure on the Crusaders' quarterback-by-committee scheme in which three players saw significant action...
...widening fund-raising investigation that threatens to topple current Teamster president Ron Carey has brought Hoffa closer than ever to reviving the family dynasty. Carey has spent time before a federal grand jury investigating an illegal scheme to divert union money to his campaign during his 1996 re-election bid, in which Hoffa was narrowly defeated. And it's far from certain that Carey will even be allowed to participate in the rerun election scheduled to begin in January. Hoffa, meanwhile, is out campaigning, raising money, plugging a reformist platform and decrying what he describes as the "biggest scandal...
...Democrats' devil-may-care pursuit of campaign money, no scheme was bolder than the secret financial alliance between the party and the re-election campaign of Teamster president Ron Carey. The trade-off, as proposed by Carey aides, boiled down to this: the Teamsters would deliver $1 million to the party's state branches around the country, and in exchange the party would tap its donors to provide Carey with $100,000 for his re-election bid. The true purpose: to funnel cash from the Teamster treasury into Carey's campaign, an illegal act that had to be done circuitously...
...foreign donor and that he was pressured to follow through by a Teamster lawyer sent his way by D.N.C. officials in Washington. Thomann's story, told to federal prosecutors as well as to Senate investigators, is the most solid evidence yet that party officials actively participated in the scheme before it went bust...
...Truths dovetailed with the Hindu scheme of reincarnation: we are reborn again and again, in an endless and wearying cycle called samsara, each life affected by the good and bad deeds performed in previous existences, according to a system called karma. The attainment of Nirvana allows us finally to step away from what one writer called "the squirrel cage of birth and rebirth" and enter into oneness with the cosmos. From the beginning, a practice of meditation was the chief mechanism to gain the awareness necessary for enlightenment...