Word: scheme
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...which the A.N.C. will call for an end to international sanctions, involves significant concessions from both sides. A < unity government including De Klerk's party would delay pure majority rule for the A.N.C. until 1999. But De Klerk's party in turn has abandoned its dream of writing a scheme for permanent power sharing into the new constitution...
...says a congressional aide. No longer. California's George Brown, chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, is convinced that "a significant possibility of an impact exists that would have major consequences" and that "we can do something about it. It can't be some hare-brained scheme that would cost umpteen billion dollars for an immediate mission," he stresses, "but we can do all of the precursor planning and prepare the kind of launch vehicle necessary to do the job." Brown's words carry weight; he will preside over hearings on the subject during the current session...
Police say the five young men had come to suspect that Tay, whom they had only just met through mutual friends, was going to betray their robbery scheme and had thoroughly rehearsed their response. According to investigators, while Tay was looking into a metal box (it supposedly contained a gun), Chan motioned to Acosta to pick up one of two baseball bats resting against the wall. Acosta struck Tay in the head, while Chan picked up the other bat and began beating Tay on the head and body. Kang and Choe, waiting in the next room, heard Tay scream...
...commercials," says Moynihan. "That single promise drove the numbers in his favor all along, and they did the trick again in some key states in those last days." With a smile that ensures the word is understood as a euphemism, Moynihan says he "suspects" that Shalala opposes Clinton's scheme to force welfare recipients to work after two years on the dole. "But it's the President's preference that matters," he says, "and I'm for it, despite the fact that by 1996 you might have to put 1.5 million people into public-sector jobs, a number that...
Whether the Vance-Owen plan is the key to peace is questionable. It would force the legitimate Bosnian government, which represents other ethnic groups in addition to the Muslims, who make up 44% of the population, to accept partition of the country. The two mediators have designed an elaborate scheme for twisting Bosnia into 10 autonomous provinces, to be ethnically apportioned among Muslims, Serbs and Croats. The patchwork blueprint can hardly be mapped, let alone offer a structure capable of standing up to the waves of hatred that flow through the real Bosnia. Rather than tamping down ethnic animosity...