Word: scheme
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...last fall the U.S. was pressing hard for the option it favors, a system of oil-and- gas lines starting through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, running under the Caspian Sea to Baku, then through Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean. This elaborate scheme is not an easy sell. The long pipeline would cost about $4 billion to build and add up to $4 to the cost of each barrel of oil it carried. To many company executives, it seems easier to use the southern route through Iran or the northern route through Russia to the Black...
Shutt and Jones are popular with directors like Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard. But they may have resisted, fatally, a cost-cutting re-engineering scheme. And Bronfman thought they were too quick to write off movies that did not have hit potential...
...women of the class of 1998 to pretend that the "college" has played a key role in their undergraduate careers. And Harvard, needless to say, has also concocted a mechanism to get its graduating class in the philanthropic spirit: The Senior Gift Fund, marrying the structure of a pyramid scheme with old fashioned peer pressure, rivals anything the Scientologists could come up with...
...nearly 21% of college-bound, non-Hispanic whites had GPAs of 3.5 and higher, compared to just 10% of Hispanics and 4% of blacks. And 25% of non-Hispanic whites had SATs above 1100, compared to 8% of Hispanics and 3% of blacks. California's redesigned admission scheme allows admissions officers to give more favorable consideration to applicants from poorer households. But for African-American and Latino applicants, that was not as helpful to them as considering race was under the old system. One reason is that among less affluent students who applied to Berkeley, Asian Americans were represented much...
Starr's last-gasp witness was former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. Already convicted for his role in one Whitewater scheme, Tucker agreed in February to cooperate with Starr's office and plead guilty to another minor charge. Some Clinton watchers thought Tucker's cooperation could devastate the President, but sources tell TIME that Tucker is not giving Starr enough to make a case against Clinton...