Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...scheme takes root innocuously enough, unnoticed by the high-minded Harvard decision-makers. When a young reporter stumbles upon the plot--known menacingly as Plan Core--and insists on pursuing the subject, he falls out of favor with his paper. But as the enterprising reporter digs deeper into the story, he comes to realize the ugly, brutal truth, horrifying through it may seem. Could it be that Dean Rosovsky is unwittingly a Yale...
Nickerman's health incentive scheme works by annually crediting each participant with $500 in a credit union account. The employee can use the money to pay medical bills; any expenses above $500 are covered by Blue Shield. Thus the plan resembles a typical deductible program, with a difference: any money left over at the end of a year belongs to the employee, to be collected upon retirement or as severance pay. Interest on principal goes to the school district's insurance fund. Since the stay-well program began in 1979, employees have become extremely cautious about running...
That sequence raises some intriguing questions for Senate investigators to probe: Was it possible that the Libyans tried to trap Billy in a Machiavellian scheme based on his potential commissions? The Libyans at some point promised to loan Billy $500,000, and the only way he could pay back that kind of money would be through his oil-sale commissions. But the Libyans controlled the sale of oil to Charter; by turning off the flow, they could also put the squeeze on Billy-and perhaps drive him to work harder in their behalf...
While Billy was in Tripoli, the Justice Department was investigating a vague plot by Libya to get its eight impounded C-130s released by bribing U.S. officials with up to $1 million per plane. One source the department regarded as unreliable said Billy was involved in the scheme. Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco
...Government maintained that the bribery scheme was by no means a closely held secret at Bethlehem. In the list of charges, the U.S. Attorney stated that the conspiracy was widely known within the company and that a number of Bethlehem shipyard managers knowingly engaged in the illegal payments...