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...lads and ladies?—but rather to the shameful conduct of the administration, and in particular, the Planning and Real Estate office. A brief review of Harvard’s attempts at expansion reveals an attidude towards local communities that is at best embarrassing and, at times, devious...
...inability to allocate capital to investment-worthy projects has hobbled the economy. Takenaka's outsider ways soon alienated the establishment. Critics charged that he was too secretive and too radical, that he sought American-style economic solutions to uniquely Japanese problems?or worse, that he was part of a devious American plot to buy Japanese banking assets on the cheap...
...initiative. Bush, on the grounds that he doesn't support the referendum, offers no clue as to how he would pay for it should the measure pass. He had to apologize after he confided to concerned Republican lawmakers, unaware a reporter was present, that he had a "couple of devious plans" to thwart the proposal should it pass...
There's a taut grandeur to Full Frontal, in part because Julia the box-office queen is encased in an ensemble cast of attractive, accomplished actors. And mainly because Hough recombines devious devices of old melodrama and comedy: the love (or hate) letter left to be discovered, two sisters involved in shady dalliances in separate rooms at the same hotel. Hough wraps this all in brittle wit; imagine the coolest cocktail conversation, then put it in a movie...
...this fertile ground that Death Star, Get Shorty and their kin were planted. These two strategies were particularly devious. In the former, Enron was being paid for taking away excess energy that it never really put in, while in the latter, it was buying and selling commitments it never made. This kind of trade, known as "gaming" the market, is prohibited by the California ISO's regulations, but because there were seven different energy markets the ISO had to keep tabs on and because it is so difficult to pin down whether a company has the energy it says...