Word: scheme
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...Schieber scheme would spawn significant transition costs requiring new taxes, such as a 1% sales levy, and deficit financing that could grow to $1.2 trillion over 40 years. All three solutions would create different winners and losers. For example, the first plan would favor workers born before 1965. Despite such wrinkles, two factors promise change--the awareness among young voters that the current system will fail them and the prospect of several hundred billion dollars pouring into the stock and bond markets each year. In fact, a massive securities industry lobbying effort has already begun, and at least one investment...
...stunt than Fox. As part of a complex $1 million package deal last fall that included a viewer contest, Fox had a character on its Party of Five ask, "Got milk?"--the tag line for the multimillion-dollar America's Dairy Farmers' ad campaign. In a similar marketing scheme, Dr. Dre spouted AT&T's "Know the code" on New York Undercover. The upcoming Mother's Day episode of Living Single will top that for MCI when a character calls mom by dialing 1-800-COLLECT. "Whatever we do, we try to look for a natural integration with a show...
...Deng Xiaoping told the generals and admirals of the People's Liberation Army that they would have to wait 10 years before they could collect their share of the wealth created by modernization. With the military's needs relegated to the lowest rung in his grand reform scheme, the defense budget was effectively frozen, and manpower was pared down from 4 million to 3 million. "Now the bill has come due," says a Washington analyst, "and the post-Deng leadership is paying...
...transaction by Bennett LeBow." If LeBow can force a merger between Liggett and R.J.R., then R.J.R. will participate in the settlement, moving out from under the shadow of incessant litigation, boosting its stock price and enabling LeBow to split the company's food and tobacco divisions. Even if this scheme fails, LeBow tells TIME, "it was a good economic deal for us to settle...
...money-making scheme proceeds smoothly until a gang of Alaskan loggers arrive bringing with them a woodcutter who is dissatisfied with Mahagonny. In the Lowell production, Jimmy McIntyre (Emmanuel Mani Cadet) is portrayed as somehow more innocent and pure than his fellow men despite his almost immediate adoption of Jenny (Laura Bewig) as his prostitute and lover. Director Kirk Williams portrays Jimmy's dissatisfaction as stemming from Mahagonny's obvious flaws (its lack of concern for anything other than human pleasure), while the libretto itself and an understanding of Brecht's theater would indicate that Jimmy is no better than...