Word: scheme
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There are, however, as many variations on this latest get-rich-on-the-Internet scheme as there are firms that want to cash in on it. Companies like Zenith and Curtis Mathes are building new TVs that come out of the packing crate Net ready; others, like ViewCall America, are designing set-top boxes that plug into ordinary TVs and make them Web capable. Sony and Philips, for example, are licensing set-top technology from WebTV Networks, a company partly financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Sega and Nintendo, meanwhile, are adding Internet capability to their video-game machines...
...grand summery scheme of things, "Emma" provides relief from action and adventure. But if you don't see their Highbury home exploding in a cataclysmic fireball, you might hear the pops and fizzles as Austen's subtleties get burned at the edges. It's a difficult task to put books to movies these days, and in this case, it's best to keep the two separate: read the book, and then see the opulent movie that happens to have the same name...
...mock-wall of the set. At numerous other times, listening characters have their backs to the audience so that their facial reactions are hidden. Michael H. Yeargen's set design and Catherine Zuber's costumes have conspired to trap both house and family in one totalitarian color scheme, a choking beige, perhaps literalizing the overwhelming entrapment the characters feel-- certainly forcing the audience to want to escape...
...practicing physician and Buddhist, I find Chopra's metaphors to be flowery, vague and frothy. We have witnessed the phenomenon of Indian gurus many times before. It is just another scheme to tap into the thirst for spiritual values felt by the American middle and upper classes. It will be interesting to see how long Chopra and his disciples last. HUNG T. VU Fremont, California...
...million in fines for making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign, the Clinton campaign jumped on the opportunity to attach the words criminal and illegal to Dole. "He needs to give the details of his relationship with Mr. Fireman and what he knew about this illegal scheme," said campaign spokesman Joe Lockhart. Fireman acknowledged making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign, the 1992 Bush-Quayle campaign and to Democratic Representative Joseph Kennedy. The 70-year old businessman made the contributions through his employees and sales representatives who were then reimbursed in cash. His company, Aqua-Leisure, will...