Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...presiding supervisor of Hempstead Town, D'Amato is chief of a huge patronage organization, To get a job as a lifeguard, a garbage collector, or a Long Island Railroad conductor in Nassau County one must be a registered Republican. A decade ago D'Amato was implicated in a scheme that required county employees to kickback 1 per cent of their salaries for the party. And just yesterday the Village Voice revealed that for years D'Amato's father had a no-show job on the Hampstead Town payroll...
Elsewhere Bowie uses ballads ("Teenage Wildfire"), funk ("Fashion"), and pop ("Up the Hill Backwards") to deliver his dejection. But the dominant musical scheme of Scary Monsters is a more accessible, refined edition of Bowie's sound on Heroes--guitar screams and synthesizer whooshes on top and an aggressively precise bass on bottom frame Bowie's vocal trapeze act, which swings from throaty baritone to wide-open tenor with effort but control...
...years ago, Tunisia's then Information Minister, Mustapha Masmoudi, presented a plan linking the new information order to the developing countries' demand for a new, more equitable international economic order. The Masmoudi scheme would have "balanced" the international news flow mainly by choking the Western press, with such measures as curbs on news-agency activities, controls on "abusive" access to news sources, and a "supranational organization" to enforce correction of "false" reporting...
...Apparently so. Last week AMC and France's state-owned Régie Nationale des Usines Renault, Europe's fourth largest car company, unveiled a labyrinthine financial deal that amounts to a Big Money bailout of the weakest and smallest of the major U.S. automakers. The survival scheme, which the firms have been negotiating since July, would inject $500 million in cash into AMC. Also, the deal could wind up providing Renault, which already holds 5% of AMC's stock as a result of a 1979 financing plan, with 55% of the company's shares. Said...
...three distinct settlements, they did not bridge the pscyhological gulf separating the communities. Cambridgeport and East Cam- bridge merchants competed mercilessly--as long as the speculators "did not meddle with the west end of town, Old Cambridge viewed the changes with satisfaction, or, in the case of the port scheme, with bewilderment." But the speculators inevitably did interfere with life in the old, elite section. When Andrew Craigie lured away the county buildings away from Harvard Square to his East Cambridge development, the mettle of the haughtier Old Cantabrigians was pricked...