Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...According to McMillan, Jerry told him that on the morning of the murder, his brother telephoned him and said he was going to get "the big nigger" that very same day. Like his brother, Jerry later changed his story and claimed James Earl was the fall guy in a plot led by a mystery man named Raoul...
...Three, one of the largest construction projects in American history, will bring pure water from upstate New York to Manhattan. What city planners didn't count on was that the water tunnel project would also bring together the Mafia and the Irish Mob of Hell's Kitchen in a plot to eradicate the unions and increase the bottom line...
...classroom got to hear the class in echo form. At the same time, the crowd was so big that the A/V assistant could not get in the door, so the professor quickly replaced a lecture that was supposed to be based on slides with an inpromtu discussion of the plot summaries of all the semester's books. Not exactly a stimulating first class, nor a good way to convince students to take his course...
...resources that could be worth billions of dollars and hundreds of jobs. So Utah, which has been scrapping with the Federal Government since statehood, is fighting back. Lawmakers are contemplating various legislative counterattacks, including enacting laws that guarantee continued access to the land, reducing the boundaries of the disputed plot and, if all else fails, prohibiting the kind of unilateral action that allowed the President to sequester it in the first place...
...qualities. "Star Wars" was not made to gross nearly $400 million in box office sales, as today's blockbusters are. The movie has inspired the love of millions as no callously concocted, market-tested summer blockbuster ever will because the movie itself is inspired, from its making to its plot to the engrossing universe it creates...