Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saying those words two years ago, Councillor Edward N. Cyr captured the essence of Scheme Z, a proposed 11-story 16-lane interchange that was to be built in East Cambridge...
...alternatives the [bridge] committee came up with were infinitely better than Scheme Z," said Debra A. McManus, cochair of the Cambridge Citizens for Liable Neighborhoods...
...Bridge Design Committee was formed by outgoing Secretary of Environmental Affairs John P. DeVillars in January 1991 to make Scheme Z more aesthetically pleasing to Cambridge residents...
Either way, Middle East experts overwhelmingly consider the idea a harebrained plot likely to end in disaster -- not only if it failed, which it probably would, but even if it succeeded. Allies are appalled: the British government has strongly warned George Bush against any such scheme. Pentagon leaders and some high State Department officials also want no part...
...would be required -- and that if they had to be sent into combat, they would take far heavier casualties than last year. Moreover, this time the casualties would be all American: London and such U.S. allies as France and Egypt want no part of the reported scheme. More flag-draped coffins are the last thing Bush needs when he is trying to win a second term...