Word: scheme
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Instead, Matthews denizens are now the beneficiaries of added showers, refurbished furniture, new interior systems and a color scheme which project manager Elizabeth L. Buckley calls "sage green and magenta...
...aspirin that costs 11 cents. "A lot of the billing frauds seem insignificant," says Ed Lueckenhoff, chief of the FBI's health-care-fraud unit. "But if you multiply that times thousands, it adds up to a lot of money. And this is a systematic scheme that is taking place with thousands of patients and thousands of procedures...
Many health experts who find the ambitious scheme too good to be true wonder why the First Lady's task force is overlooking the potential windfall that would result from a crackdown on fraud. The Administration insists that fraud will eventually be targeted. "It really is going to be a priority," says a White House health spokesman. The government, he says, may impose "new criminal statutes to combat fraud...
Negotiators in Geneva have devised a new accord, backed by Serbia and Croatia, to end the fighting in Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan last May, but are more enthusiastic about the new scheme, which would create a demilitarized union of ethnic zones guaranteed by the presence of U.N. troops. Bosnian Muslims remain reluctant to endorse a partition that allows Serbs to hold onto substantial territories taken by aggression. Mediators have given the opposing sides just 10 days to accept or reject this latest initiative...
...ideological gulf which separated Hill and Thomas and her perception that he did not respond to her subtle advances combined to feed her resentment and sow the seeds of her revenge scheme...