Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share price dropped 15%, from 53 7/8 to 45 3/4, while the stock of Netcom Online Communications, a leading provider of direct Internet access, fell more than 13%, from 28 1/4 to 24 1/2. Jacques Gauchey, a new-media consultant in San Francisco, says of AT&T's scheme, "It's very hard to compete with this price...
Szekeres is required by law to attend the arraignment, where she will be formally charged with one count of larceny over $250 by single scheme and will officially enter a plea. By law, the case will go to court with-in 100 days of the arraignment...
...politicians have engaged in the classic 'bait and switch' scheme. They brought us into the store with an icon of Richard Allen Davis, but now that we're in the store, it is full of pizza thieves and pot smokers...
...busy taking care of her young daughter and trying to clear her name of the wrongdoing of her former husband. The Congresswoman has blamed her estranged husband and former campaign treasurer, Joe Waldholtz, for funneling nearly $2 million in illegal funds into her campaign through an alleged check-kiting scheme. According to TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty, "Her version of events was not really selling." The former corporate lawyer and Gingrich favorite had little chance of reelection anyway, said Tumulty. "We some amazing resurrections but this would have to be a doozy," she said. "If you look at polls, the voters...
...fearsome gangsta in America just to spite them all. In Wonda Why They Call U Bytch he offers up a dishearteningly crass justification for calling women cruel names. In Ambitionz az a Ridah he raps, conspiratorially, "Now these money-hungry bitches gettin' suspicious/ Started plottin' and plannin' on a scheme to come and twist us." Since his last album, Shakur has switched from Interscope to Death Row Records, home to controversy-courting rappers Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre, and in the song 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted Shakur engages in a boastful duet with Snoop that revels shamelessly...