Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...larger scheme of things, history might judge her contribution to Harvard's sports to be bigger than any awards she might have earned...
Cecil Bykerk, Mutual of Omaha's chief actuary, regards the outcome as inherently unfair. "A younger person might be paying twice or more, as a percentage of income, as a mature person," he says. Salvatore Curiale, New York State's superintendent of insurance, counters that the new scheme is "an unqualified success...
When it came to a book project, she was one of the all-time great bubble blowers. Never did those bubbles burst, either. Scheme after scheme was launched and christened. My ideas, no matter how fatuous, were buoyed up by her goodwill. It was, and is, one of my ambitions to write something that would last -- forever, no less -- as a thank-you letter to the U.S., where I have been so well treated. Months passed in this way, until the idea began to collapse under its own weight. She did not scold. But, she said, in her best down...
...mayor, in fact, testified on the city councillor's behalf in March, when Walsh was convicted on 41 counts of bank fraud in connection with a scheme to swindle the Dime Savings Bank of New York of $2.9 million...
...There was a pattern of falsifications ofsecond mortgages," Richard V. Kelleher, who headsthe Dime Borrowers Association on Cape Cod, saidin an interview earlier this month. "The bank setup the whole scheme, but the bank walks offclean...