Word: scheme
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Clinton's intention is to clamp down on non-U.S. companies that have been illegally shifting their profits abroad. Some companies do this by inflating their transfer prices, which are the amounts they charge their American subsidiaries for goods and services. This scheme boosts the profits of the parent companies back home and reduces the taxable earnings of the domestic affiliates. Clinton's advisers, who extrapolated their numbers from a study by a House Ways and Means subcommittee, are confident that they can generate enormous new revenues by stopping or penalizing those practices...
...October 1990, the parents filed a suit charging that four Cambridge residents and four Cambridge officials had cooperated in a scheme to oust the elementary school from its location on Brattle Street for racial reasons...
According to Turk, Walsh prevented the Rent Control Board from investigating Mary Praught, a lawyer in Walsh's law firm for an alleged scheme to rent out a rent-controlled apartment at market rates...
...with the New Deal, some of the programs were poorly conceived and ineffectual. Others are now taken for granted as a part of the political biosphere, programs whose worth neither party would dare contest. But it was the overarching scheme, and dream, that fell into disfavor. Reform was no longer experienced as something performed for the people but as something performed on the people. In an age of belated racial redress, white America -- the rank and file, the lower-middle class -- felt itself under siege. With jolting suddenness, the old alliance fell apart. Liberalism was coded as the elevation...
Then came World War II. That horrifying experience drew the French together as never before, reinforcing the value of human life and national cooperation. The heroes of the French Resistance put forward a social scheme that both employer and employee would finance to protect workers against three basic contingencies: illness, unemployment and old age. The plan also included specific family benefits to encourage French couples to begin replenishing the depleted population. Underlying all of this was a profound sense of solidarity, a word still heard in French conversation. "The French social security system provides for solidarity between generations," says Michel...