Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gone the politics-as-usual route," rails Nicholas Sabatine, chairman of the Patriot Party, an infant offshoot of Perot's 1992 campaign organization. "He is angering a lot of his people." Perot admits he is abandoning a grand scheme popular with many voters. "That everyone is for a third alternative is obvious," he says. "But is it the best thing to do? If you start a third party and do everything perfectly, you have started down a path that will probably take 10 years [to capture] the White House, the House and the Senate. Can't make it overnight...
...just two tense days ofWhitewater hearings,House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach has aggressively challenged theWhite House accountof President and Mrs. Clinton's passive role in the land development scheme. As one Democratic panel member after another angrily protested the proceedings today, three federal regulators charged that top government officials repeatedly thwarted their attempts to investigate the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner. Resolution Trust Corp. investigator Jean Lewis said she believed "there was a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation."TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised...
...that a bedside manner makes a difference. Hillary Clinton learned this painfully, when the postmortems on her health-care plan suggested that her high-handed style hastened its demise. Newt Gingrich is not about to make the same mistake. He has known for months that his whole grand scheme to balance the budget depends on reinventing Medicare, one of the biggest, fattest, most popular and most expensive pieces of the Federal Government. So back in the spring Gingrich began plotting his moves, all the while bearing in mind that when you are forced to deliver bad news, you should...
...villages in the West Bank, remaining only in positions necessary for protecting Israeli settlements. But the Israelis say they will leave just four cities for now, and that further redeployments will stretch into mid-1997. Arafat's chief representative in Jerusalem, Faisal Husseini, has called the drawn-out scheme a "disaster" for the Palestinians...
Little is known about the alleged price-fixing scheme. But a federal grand jury in Chicago has cast a wide net to determine who might have participated. In recent weeks, the grand jury has subpoenaed possible evidence of collusion from agribusiness behemoths Cargill, CPC International and A.E. Staley. The products in question: high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener found in everything from Coca-Cola to cake; lysine, an amino acid used in feeding poultry and hogs; and citric acid, which adds tartness to jams and jellies, among many other uses. Some experts speculated that investigators are focusing on the possibility...