Word: scheme
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Oberwetter didn't bite, and his anger over the scheme is igniting old questions about whether -- and how often -- the FBI conducts stings on citizens without probable cause. Congress has repeatedly declined to enact laws against entrapment by government officials, but that could soon change. "We've had a long history of stings but never one with such astonishing political implications," says Don Edwards, the tough chairman of the House Civil and Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, who plans to hold new hearings. The attention couldn't have come at a worse time for the FBI, whose director, William Sessions, is himself...
...presidency, it would help him claim a mandate for his programs. The TIME/CNN poll asked voters if his election should be interpreted as public support for his more controversial proposals, including raising taxes on the wealthy, providing college loans to all qualified students, starting a national health-insurance scheme and making support of abortion rights a test for the appointment of Supreme Court Justices. By large majorities, even voters who now prefer the other candidates said Clinton's election would constitute popular support for those ideas. After one of the toughest and most serpentine campaigns in memory, Clinton would have...
...convinced that we need more gasoline taxes. In my home state of New York, we pay a total of 44 cents a gallon and Mom and Dad agree with me that this is way too much already. There's no way they'll sign on for old Ross's scheme, which brings me to my second point...
Dingman also said that, under such a scheme, the way students choose their blockmates may be severely restricted. Students would have to choose between rooming with a friend not from 29 Garden St. and getting a priority housing choice, he said...
...week into a probe of its own FBI director for ethics violations, Barr's Justice Department must now endure the attentions of an "independent counsel," drafted by Barr to investigate the roiling dispute between his department and the CIA over whether the government obstructed the investigation of an illegal scheme to funnel $4 billion to the Iraqi regime before the invasion of Kuwait...