Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what the Nobel citation called one of "nature's most remarkable subatomic particles" tied up an important theoretical loose end and spawned a new field of neutrino physics. But by the early 1970s, it was also clear that the neutrino was only one element in an elegant organizational scheme, now known as the Standard Model, by which nature groups the subatomic particles...
...trading. He was promoted to trader in 1984 and, because the office was a small one, remained in charge of keeping the books. But things took a wrong turn from the get-go when Iguchi lost an estimated $200,000 trading bonds and allegedly recouped it through his illegal scheme. "We had great expectations for him, and so he felt obliged to keep going instead of coming clean," says Kenji Yasui, a Daiwa deputy president...
...home; either dead or seriously wounded. Anthony, addicted to this to make him a man. Instead, it made it hard for him to sleep through the night. Taking a job at the butcher's, Anthony tries to straighten out his life, but he is soon sucked into a scheme to hijack an armored car. At this point the audience must wonder how many times this film can change gears. Just as one gets comfortable with the pace, the Hughes Brothers slam it into reverse. As can be expected the robbery goes awry, leaving some dead and Anthony...
...scheme took shape, according to Japanese police, early in the evening of Monday, Sept. 4, the Labor Day holiday for Americans. Four U.S. servicemen stationed on Okinawa, home base to 29,000 American troops, met at a disco in Naha, the island's main city, and talked about grabbing an Okinawan girl and having some "fun." One man quickly backed out, but, he later told investigators, the other three, two Marines and a sailor, decided to cruise the seaside boulevards in search of prey...
GUILTY. GEORGE LINDEMANN, 31, scion of a cellular-phone empire; of having his underperforming show horse Charisma electrocuted in order to get $250,000 in insurance money; in Chicago. He is one of 23 upscale equestrians indicted in a fraud scheme...