Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When the oil money started accumulating seriously in the early 1950s, the Sabahs concocted a sophisticated scheme for distributing the windfall. Kuwait City, where 80% of the population still lives (or lived before August), was a town of mud huts. The Emir set about building a modern metropolis, a place not unlike Houston, with its skyscraper business center surrounded by villa-style suburbs. In Kuwait, too, each "suburb" became a self-contained microcosm of a city. The neighborhoods were established as cooperatives. Each had its own supermarkets, schools, medical centers and municipal services...
...They are parcels of home shipped into a zone that is nearly as alien and inhospitable as space -- temperatures unnatural, planet sand-colored to the horizon, days blinding, nights full of stars. Home, built around the cave and fire pit, belongs to a more Teutonic, cold-weather scheme of things...
...dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that the framers deliberately rejected any scheme that would give the Chief Executive the power to make the basic decision in favor...
...council unanimously condemned Scheme Z two weeks ago, and Cambridge state representatives have said that they intend to file legislation that could block the project's funding...
Last night, councillors said that city officials need to present a united front against the Scheme Z plan, and that individual department's assessment of the plan must reflect the council's overall stance...