Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Landes' criticism is not only valid, but eye-opening. Until now, opposition to the hotel plan, which would replace the Harvard Motor House, has centered around whether it is appropriate for the University to involve itself with a purely profit-making scheme. Landes points out something which has been overlooked, which is that the hotel would be built at the expense of academic concerns...
...remains uncertain. He might push autonomy in an attempt to disarm the rebellion but forestall any grander political or territorial concessions. If nothing else worked, he might reverse his previous opposition and adopt a strategy proposed by Ariel Sharon, one of the hawks in his party. The Sharon scheme calls for Israel to incorporate unilaterally the Jewish settlement areas in the territories as well as land deemed necessary for security. Then it would withdraw its military forces from the remaining Arab-populated areas. These actions, Sharon argues, would safeguard Israel's military interests while granting some form of autonomy...
...latest joke making the rounds in Budapest carries a bitter truth. "Who will win the soccer championship this season?" Answer: "The team with the fewest players in jail." But to most Hungarians, there is nothing very funny about the soccer bribery scheme that by last week had developed into one of the biggest sports scandals ever to touch the East bloc...
During the past two weeks, 40 players and officials from seven of Hungary's top soccer clubs have been accused or indicted in the scheme, which involved rigging games for bribes of up to $11,000. On one occasion in April 1986, wives of players on opposing teams passed payments of $1,800 to fix the game just before kickoff. The scandal has reached into soccer's elite: heroes such as Sandor Sallai, a star player, and Kalman Meszoly, former manager of the national team, have been accused of cooking matches. Punishments for those found guilty could range from league...
After a series of interviews with experts on computers and computer security, it appears that the virus spread itself in a three-step process, which transformed an innocent computer into one that could infect others--like a chain-letter scheme run on the most advanced circuitry...