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There has rarely been such a sudden and dramatic shift in American policy and tone. An Administration that just a month or two ago emphatically believed in going it alone--walking away from treaties, pushing its missile-defense scheme no matter who said what--has thrown open its arms to embrace the pleasures of multilateralism. The change is expedient, of course--America has a job to do and is taking all the help it can get--but it is also smarter and subtler than Bush's critics ever imagined, or thought him capable of imagining...
...last fall Stevens, the CEO of Ridgeview Medical Center, a $110 million-a-year hospital and network of clinics in suburban Minneapolis, opted for an experimental course of treatment. He offered his 800 full-time doctors, nurses, administrators and other personnel the choice of a new scheme called a "defined contribution" health plan, courtesy of a local start-up known as Definity Health...
...watched their tendencies [on film] and we devised a scheme to stop the run,” Balestracci said. “We stopped the run and so it turned out to be a great game plan...
...grand jury on counts of murder and tax evasion. So where does Corky come into play? Pete and Paul (Peter Berg of “Chicago Hope,” and Chris Penn of Rush Hour), Corky’s brothers, have come up with an elaborate and ingenious scheme. They plan to infiltrate the FBI and steal the evidence against Papa Romano, and they need Corky to be the sacrificial lamb. While this crazy plot seems enough with regard to typical comedies, Corky Romano takes it a step further. In order to pull their plan off, Pete and Paul...
...good scheme that allowed me to get into the backfield,” he said. “I didn’t make any special plays...