Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report will probably have the greatest impact on a committee, chaired by Professor of Afro-American Studies K. Anthony Appiah, which is charged with formulating a long-term scheme for the College's race relations policy. It is unclear whether the committee will release any recommendations before the end of the semester...
...curtain rose last week on what could prove the final act in a drama of tragicomic ineptitude: the "vodka putsch." Remember the three days in August 1991 when a dozen communist leaders imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev and seized control of the Soviet Union? After the scheme fell apart, one conspirator drank himself into a stupor, another shot himself dead, and a third made a break for the airport -- where he was arrested with the key to his new Kremlin office still in his pocket...
Sadly, the creation of that state, by the means Warren Christopher so excoriated, appears to be the only strategy currently effective in Bosnia. The Vance-Owen plan, the sole overreaching policy the international community has proffered, is an ineluctable shambles. Lord Owen himself, co-purveyor of that % scheme, which proposes to divide Bosnia into 10 provinces drawn along ethnic lines, acknowledged last week that bombing Serb supply lines may be necessary after all. "If they are hell-bent on taking other towns, then we will have to meet this assault on Muslim towns with military action," he said...
...Pseudointellectual." For habitat, the artfart prefers the Advocate Building. WHRE, the Signet Society and Adams House, but the majority never get this far and are forced to subsist in dining halls and common rooms across campus. They are the only species that can refer to anything from rhyme scheme to melody as an "issue...
...system is an administrative nightmare. Ira Magaziner, a leading member of Clinton's task forces has already sought to tackle the health care issue in this light. If Clinton's plan emerges within the next few weeks as promised, it will be surprising if one major facet of the scheme does not involve tidying up the bureaucratic mess...