Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Szekeres didn't show up to the February hearing, but is required by law to attend the arraignment. There, she will be formally charged with one count of larceny over $250 by single scheme and will officially enter a plea...
...post-independence experience of African women. She used the novel as a way to cope with the pressures of her neurosurgical residency. "I was doing my surgical internship, and it was very intense," says Maraire. "I was feeling very constrained. It [the novel] was not in the grand scheme. It just developed...
While some experts say going back to a scheme of "fixed" exchange rates could make commerce more predictable, most businesses already protect themselves against currency fluctuations through modern hedging transactions. Most economists warn that the cost of returning to a gold-based currency could be enormous. Monetary authorities may be forced to raise interest rates even in the midst of a recession to encourage dollar purchases needed to defend the dollar's fixed value. The result? A mild business downturn could spiral into something far worse. Sticking with the gold standard in this situation would be the economic equivalent...
...National Governors' Association arrived in Washington on Feb. 3, and within days it had managed what Bill Clinton and the Congress could not. Last Tuesday, in a unanimous and bipartisan vote, the Governors passed a six-page policy outline on both welfare and Medicaid reform. The Medicaid scheme leaned in the Administration's direction, maintaining some federally mandated health guarantees for the disabled, pregnant women, the elderly and children up to age 12. The welfare outline was closer to what Congress wants: states would get their federal money with few strings attached and be allowed...
...huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered Ralph's threats of domestic violence ridiculous. Yet she was also tender in a worldly wise way, always ready to forgive Ralph his latest scheme to escape hardscrabble Brooklyn...