Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Their defensive backs were a little soft, but I think that's a credit to our receivers," Linden said. "We had a great scheme this week. We knew a lot of times we could play a little cover-one, and if we got some man coverage we could hit those quick outs...
...evening begins with Murray being mugged by two street punks, whom Murray misidentifies as part of this grand theatrical scheme. He forces them to redo the scene in several genres, with one emotional performance nearly reducing them to tears. Then he gives the befuddled youths his wallet, letting them run off, shouting "I want that back at the end of the show." But, even this gag would get old by the end of the film, so the movie is not solely powered by this idea that life only affords one take...
...then be able to profit from selling pollution rights. Moreover, the permits could be traded across national borders. If a company in Germany, for example, built an energy-efficient factory in China, it could avoid having to squeeze extra efficiency out of a factory back home. Such a scheme is in place within the U.S. to reduce sulfur-dioxide releases from power plants, and it has slashed that type of pollution...
...cards. While the plan is silent on what would happen after 2012, for instance, White House officials concede privately that they are willing to offer an additional 5% reduction. But that won't do much to allay other nations' established hostility toward Clinton's emissions-trading scheme and his insistence that developing countries agree to their own cutbacks...
...next four years the team raised money by consulting and creating an intricate credit card pyramid scheme involving 25 credit cards, and made it through a continuous cycle of "'We'll be done in three months' deadlines...