Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drury won't let success spoil him. "My parents did a great job with me in making me realize that while it's nice to be talented, in the grand scheme of things, that's not so important. Being a good person and treating people micely...
Race czar and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles wrapped yards of red tape around the glowing coals of the previous spring's tense campus atmosphere, building committees, holding meetings and heralding a new scheme for College policy...
...some were a little fearful, perhaps, that Inside Edge really endorses a spree of misogyny--and that the rest of the world will follow suit. It is by Harvard students, after all, so it must be inspired by brilliance, driven by a grand scheme. But in their enthusiasm for conspiracy theories and their eagerness to point out the threat of the patriarchy, most students haven't examined what the magazine's editors are actually thinking. Are they misogynistic--or just misguided...
...game hideously expands. Serbs set out to murder the Bosnian Muslims' past -- destroying historic mosques, incinerating ancient archives -- as deliberate cultural genocide, to reinforce their scheme of human genocide. And the Mafia (or whoever it was) knows very well that the waters of forgetfulness soon close over human death: that a few years after the blood has been hosed away not too many people remember whether it was eight people or 85 who were killed by a bomb in a railway station; that if you want to make your power felt, a good way to do it is by destroying...
...Breaux's proposals form the basis of a compromise that ensures Senate passage of Clinton's economic plan -- and helps shred the tax-and-spend label that has contributed to the President's dive in the polls -- then a health- care-reform scheme that proves nonthreatening to business could fuel a sustained economic recovery. "The bad news is that the President's underlying liberal instincts could cause us to propose a health bill that takes care of the uninsured but does nothing to generate jobs," says a White House aide. "The good news is that it's largely...