Word: scheme
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...have traditionally allowed jurors to be excluded from serving without any explanation. "Be it at the hands of the State or the defense," wrote Justice Harry Blackmun for the majority, "if a court allows jurors to be excluded because of group bias, it is a willing participant in a scheme that could only undermine the very foundation of our system of justice -- our citizens' confidence...
...TOOK AMERICA'S ROMAN CATHOLIC bishops three years to develop a scheme for ending the nuclear arms race. They needed six years to produce a master plan for reforming capitalism. But it has become an unending struggle for the men of the hierarchy to come up with a coherent policy on women to guide their flock of 58 million. The bishops are already into their ninth year of trying to agree on a pastoral letter, and the longer it takes, the more rancorous the debates become. Feminist lobbyists, antifeminist lobbyists, even a few bishops, proclaim the project a disaster...
Cantabrigians maintain that the smaller bridges of 8.1D (far left) will avoid much of the negative environmental impact of the 16-lane Scheme Z interchange (near left...
...opponents of Scheme Z, this expected settlement signals the beginning of the end--the specter of a colossal elevated highway is no longer a threat...
Says McManus, "Had we not raised hell, they would have built Scheme...