Word: schemes
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...years since the depository was founded, this basic scheme has undergone some revision. But because the facility is one of the first of its kind, Lane has had to play it by ear and employ some good old Yankee ingenuity...
...current scheme--substantially different from a 1998 version on another site--would replace Coolidge Hall and the University Information Services building with two buildings connected by a tunnel under Cambridge Street. The structures would allow Harvard to consolidate the government department and all of the centers for international study, leaving the Littauer Center entirely to the economics department...
...collect to better target customers. MicroStrategy went public in 1998, and the stock took off after the creation of Strategy.com a unit that beams custom-tailored information to subscribers of clients like Ameritrade, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. This month, Saylor announced a $100 million charitable scheme to launch an "Internet university." He says these plans haven't been changed by the news...
...wish we had the technology to do things," says Ian Schrager, the man who pioneered the affordable-boutique-hotel trend. "Now technology is giving us things we don't even know how to use yet." London hotel guests in Schrager's St. Martin's Lane can alter the color scheme of their room simply by adjusting a knob next to the bed. Computerization and new materials have made production of just about anything cheaper and more efficient, and quality easier to maintain...
...many foreigners, investing in Russia has proved to be tortuous and hugely expensive. Just ask the folks at BP Amoco. Last fall the company nearly saw its $484 million investment in Russian oil giant Sidanko all but disappear in a maze of Russian corporate shenanigans. In a complex scheme with a brutishly simple result, Sidanko's most prodigious subsidiary was declared bankrupt and sold for a song to a rival, the Tyumen Oil Co. (TNK). BP Amoco vehemently objected and in late December reached a tentative settlement with TNK. But the Sidanko affair is still cited in expatriate business circles...