Word: scheme
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Still, the cost of keeping employment high amid technological flux is dislocation, as workers are ushered abruptly to their new place in the scheme of things. In 1993 and 1994, as the unemployment rate dropped from 7.3% to 5.4%, an estimated 1.1 million U.S. workers were laid off-the highest two-year number on record. And no small number of those workers found new employment at lower wages...
...episode that raised the most eyebrows involved James Lake, a prominent and highly paid lobbyist. Last week, in one of the first results of the investigation of Bill Clinton's former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, Lake--whose clients include powerful agribusiness interests--pleaded guilty to charges involving a scheme to benefit Espy's brother Henry. A failed run for Congress had left Henry Espy with a $75,000 bank debt. To help him pay it--while evading the ban on corporate contributions to federal election campaigns--Lake persuaded three associates at his lobbying firm to make personal contributions...
...fraud and extortion. According to the complaint, the defendants tried to loot the Saudi European Bank, an Arab-owned institution in Paris. The lawsuit was filed by the bank's former parent company, headed by Syrian-born banker Jamal Radwan. The complaint charges that several defendants concocted a scheme for Investcorp to take over Saudi European Bank. In addition, Kirdar allegedly threatened to persuade other banks to stop doing business with Radwan's. Some of the individuals named in the complaint are also accused of trying to bribe and threaten Radwan to get him to approve "uneconomic and illegal loans...
...judge held that First Commercial failed to raise "a single credible defense" to a customer's allegations that the firm had defrauded him. "The case," wrote the judge, "establishes once more that there are virtually no limits to greed, or the ingenuity of men in devising schemes to cheat." First Commercial is still having run-ins with regulators. Last May the Commodity Futures Trading Commission accused it of engaging in a check-kiting scheme to mislead regulators about its financial condition. The firm is fighting the charges...
...really air it out as an actor). In essence, TV's early characters were subjected to the same drama every week, as if they were stuck in a time warp. Would Darrin stop Larry Tate from finding out that Samantha is a witch? Would Lucy come up with a scheme to subvert Ricky's wishes? Would McGarrett get to say "Book him, Danno"--or maybe, just once, "Book him, Chin...