Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew [the scheme] would be man-to-man going in," said junior cornerback Glenn Jackson. "All eyes were...
...biggest boost to the team will be the reappearance of Laurie Downey. After taking last year off from both swimming and school. Downey returns as a talented swimmer holding seven Harvard records in backstroke, freestyle and Individual Medley events. The versatile junior will figure heavily in the Harvard scheme...
...years after the Rasputinolution, Anya (Meg Ryan) is 18 and alone. She meets Dimitri (John Cusack), a onetime palace servant with a 10 million-ruble scheme: to take a suitable young woman to Paris, persuade Marie that the girl is Anastasia and pocket the reward money. The usual complications ensue--boy hates girl, boy loves girl, girl keeps tripping annoyingly over scarf, dead monk tries to kill girl--accompanied by lilting melodies...
...carpet manufacturer in the U.S., was a target of a Justice Department price-fixing probe, but was not charged. Investigators are now looking into whether or not the company reimbursed employees for contributions made to the plain-talking, plaid-shirted candidate's 1996 presidential campaign. It was precisely a scheme of that sort that cost one of Bob Dole's moneymen a $1 million fine...
...Since his campaign manager and two other aides plead guilty to the scheme on Sept. 18, Carey has claimed that his subordinates acted without his knowledge. In his decision, however, Judge Conboy disagreed, finding "substantive additional information with respect to Mr. Carey?s knowledge of certain of these improper schemes," with most of that evidence coming from the testimony of the indicted aides...