Word: scheme
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...Rancho Cucamonga, California, are scheduled to play more than 500 games during that seven-day stretch. The games in the rookie leagues may draw as few as 500 fans; in Triple A the crowds average between 5,000 and 7,000. "The minors are not a get-rich-quick scheme," says Bob Sparks of the National Association of Professional Leagues, which oversees all but one of the leagues. The minors are on track to draw 32 million spectators this season, buoyed in part by the attendance explosion in Birmingham, Alabama, where Michael Jordan has mastered the craft of striking...
...test is, Which provisions will reduce crime?, the red meat in the $33 billion bill isn't worth chewing over. Neither the jolt of additional death penalties nor the "three strikes and you're out" scheme that Clinton adores -- the plan that would incarcerate for life those felons convicted of a third violent crime -- would significantly lower crime rates...
Then came the painful lesson: things too good to be true usually aren't. Last week investors learned the hard way about the old-fashioned Ponzi scheme. MMM suddenly collapsed. By week's end thousands of investors swarmed around its Moscow offices, trying to redeem their pieces of paper. Many of the shorn had come from the Moscow Commodity Exchange on the other side of town, where windows were broken before they were told to try their luck at the company headquarters instead. On Saturday that market evaporated when the company folded up shop, and shares that had dropped from...
With Philips marketing the sets in the middle price range for compact discs, the savvy buyer can pick up the Brahms cycle for less than $35 dollars in the coupon-saturated Square. However, one might be disappointed to discover Philip's unorthodox packaging scheme--the discs are stored in TyvekTM sleeves within cardboard boxes, rather than in the traditional jewel-box trappings. But external aesthetics aside, what of the music itself...
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell tried to stake out the center today with a new health-care plan. His scheme aims to cover 95 percent of all Americans by the turn of the century. If this level isn't reached, employer mandates would kick in by the year 2002 -- something that should please the more liberal elements of Congress. Businesses, moreover, would pay only 50 percent of their employees' health care costs, not 75 percent as House Democrats would like. That's a bow to conservatives' wishes. Small businesses would also be exempt from this burden. While the plan received...