Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...directors in Washington have unveiled a new plan that may enable the actors starring in American Hostage to leave the show one at a time. The scheme involved smuggling disease to each member of the cast, prompting the New York Daily News to headline its Friday edition, CARTER TO HOSTAGES: DROP DEAD...
...science major at Smith College, she spent part of her student days reading history and attending lectures on the subject. "I think I have always been drawn to history for the same reason I majored in biological sciences," she says. "Both subjects tie people into the infinitely longer scheme of life. When you integrate all the pieces, that's the fun of it. History is a good story...
...likable and to be liked. More than most people, they seem to have a passion for self-analysis. If the nation was constructed upon abstractions, Americans somehow need to be reassured constantly about who they are, about what they are up to and what they mean in the scheme of things. They are less certain now about their moral place in the world; that is a possibly promising readjustment of the national psychology...
...insert billions of those dollars into the U.S. stock market and then cut the price of oil to $10 per bbl. The Dow Jones average will go through the top of the World Trade Center, and the Kingdom will be an overnight hero to the hard-pressed West. The scheme works on paper -at least the clothbound kind...
...there's no reason to know how everything fits into Lucas's cosmic scheme when you see The Empire Strikes Back. What's important to remember is that when we last saw Luke, Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), they were celebrating their destruction of the Empire's ominous Death Star, oblivious to the escape of arch-nogoodnik Darth Vader (David Prowse...