Word: scheme
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Thankfully, his nefarious scheme was foiled by the contractors. The walls are thin enough so that conversations with neighbors are never a problem. (In fact, they're often involuntary.) And whatever sounds the walls stop, the pipes pick up and transmit through the entire house...
...parliamentary elections, and laying the groundwork for his own 1995 presidential bid. Mitterrand, of course, has dismissed the idea. But other Socialists and independents are reacting positively. On Wednesday, Brice Lalonde, head of one of the country's two ecologist parties, voiced interest in joining Rocard's grand scheme. The ecologists, who may command up to 20% of the vote this month, could provide the margin for a Rocard victory...
...brief visits, and after about a year he'll decide which coast feels better. And what about the 4 million bucks CBS shelled out to buy New York's Ed Sullivan Theater for Dave? Says the source: "A small amount of money in the scheme of things...
...years of Head Start for those most in need but also award schoolchildren in the lower grades a larger chunk of the $6 billion annually authorized under Chapter 1, the nation's primary source of federal funds for education. Those dollars are currently spread thinly in a pork-barrel scheme that reaches 90% of all congressional districts -- the price for the political support required to keep Chapter 1 alive. "Unless you conceive of Head Start and Chapter 1 together and target the money at the most disadvantaged," says Zigler, "we'll never have the good effects we know...
...IMPACT AT A GLANCE How the grade scheme works...