Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Foale was first told of the repair scheme, his silence echoed around the world. "Incredible," he finally muttered. Tsibliyev and Lazutkin groused more openly before assenting to a four-hour "internal" space walk in the frigid, airless and possibly contaminated lab. As one stands by, the other will enter with a flashlight to look for the right wires, moving gingerly in the tight quarters to avoid ripping his bulky space suit. Then they will reseal Spektr with a new hatch fitted with cable ports on either side to complete the electrical circuits to Mir. Foale, meanwhile, will be waiting...
...neck," says a veteran Justice hand about the proliferation of plumbers' squads. "Some days, we spend a lot of the day being interviewed." Among the offending disclosures: a Washington Post story by Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy that detailed U.S. intelligence intercepts of a covert Chinese-government scheme to funnel illicit money into political campaigns; revelations of plea-bargain negotiations between Justice and Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, a Saudi dissident nabbed in Canada and suspected of driving a lookout car for the truck bombers who killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran last June; reports that alleged CIA killer...
...flagrant misuse of the word "surrealism" to mean anything bizasrre, strange or unusal, and enforcers of consensus reality, determined to pull the noose they have slipped around the throat of the imagination ever tighter, make ever stricter what can be defined as "normal." This debasement is symptomatic of the scheme to murder interest in authentic surrealism through the promotion of its counterfeits...
...gold tends to fuel a peculiar cycle of euphoria, panic and suspicion. In Eureka, where a new mine is opening up, the hills around town are being graded and bulldozed in preparation for dozens of fancy new homes. Eureka's Cuchine fears the houses are a rip-off, a scheme by the mining conglomerate to sell real estate that it knows will be worthless when the mine's exhausted. "Seven years from now that whole hill might be deserted...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Leaving no motel room unturned, Whitewater investigators are searching for dirt on President Bill Clinton's past sex life in order to dig up revealing pillow talk about the Whitewater investment scheme. In a series of recent interviews with Arkansas state troopers and 12 to 15 women, including Paula Jones, investigators swerved from their usual hunt for business-related information to unearth details on Clinton's sex acts and any illicit rendezvous with other women, The Washington Post reported. Attorneys working with independent counsel Kenneth Starr argue that the interviews were necessary to establish whether President Clinton...