Word: scheme
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Four tests, based on the same scheme, were used in the experiment. Participants first heard phrases such as "anchor...right higher?" with no knowledge of the imagery task...
...Waldholtz did a pretty good job. Even now, no one is sure how much he has, or ever had, or how much he may have got by manipulating family, friends and creditors. But everybody wants some answers. Joe, 32, is under federal investigation in an alleged check-kiting scheme that may involve as much as $1.7 million. And Enid, 37, who last week filed for divorce and custody of their infant daughter, now faces questions about what she knew or should have known about her tangled finances...
After close to 10 turbulent years of reform, Russians also have serious doubts that their country's young democratic institutions can weather a transfer of power. Yeltsin's unfinished scheme to create a presidential republic has resulted in a state as fragile as the health of its chief executive. Unresolved constitutional questions remain about how the country's two-tier parliament should be formed. Although Russians will be going to the polls on Dec. 17 to elect deputies to the State Duma, the lower house, it still has not been decided whether the Federation Council, the upper house, should...
...regulators. But no sooner had the Feds left than the traders reappeared--led by Toshihide Iguchi. It was his dual role as chief bond trader and bookkeeper that ultimately brought the bank to grief by enabling him to rack up $1.1 billion in undisclosed losses from 1984 until his scheme came to light this past summer...
...independent counsel investigating former Clinton Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy obtained his first conviction: a guilty plea from a top Republican political insider and lobbyist. James Lake admitted to taking part in an illegal scheme to funnel money to the failed congressional campaign of the Secretary's brother, Henry Espy. Lake allegedly had been asked to help Espy out by a lobbyist for Sun Diamond Growers of California, a client company of Lake's own lobbying firm. The point of the exercise, presumably, was to curry favor with the Agriculture Secretary...