Word: scheme
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...patriotism and military pride and honor and sacrifice, a traditional American hymn of duty and manhood that Vietnam had silenced, or turned obscene. Timberg thinks three of the five men--North, Poindexter and McFarlane--got tangled up in the Rube Goldberg contraption of Iran-contra in part because the scheme (arms for hostages, profits going to the freedom fighters of Nicaragua) gave them back some of the lost notes, a snatch of the melody they had been denied...
...goal of a serious policy, says Council on Foreign Relations president Leslie Gelb, "should be a settlement along the lines of the territorial division already approved by" Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. That scheme contemplates a roughly fifty-fifty split of Bosnia. "There's no hope for a nice, multiethnic society," says Gelb. "The parties will keep fighting till they're together" with their brethren. "So, up front, we should propose that the Serbs in Bosnia confederate with Serbia and move people so they're living in areas contiguous to Serbia itself...
...ever was," saysTIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. Worse for Clinton, Ratan says, the Smith and Tucker indictments suggest that prosecutors find credence in the related story of Little Rock judge David Hale, who -- in the most damaging charge to date -- has accused the President of participating in a 1986 scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration...
Albert Meyer, an accounting professor at Spring Arbor College in Michigan, did not believe in Bennett, however, and therein lies the tale of how an elaborate Ponzi scheme came unraveled, leaving Philadelphia, Wall Street and the cozy world of nonprofit organizations reeling in embarrassment...
Unfortunately for the amorous duo, the cruel king of England has come up with a new scheme to keep Scotland under the English yoke. The ancient fertility rite of "prima notte," or first night, is reinstated. This means that when a woman marries, the lord of her district will have the right/duty to have sex with her. The English soldiers interpret this new plan as license to take any woman they see, and Murron catches the eye of one licentious soldier, She lashes out drwingte wrath of tother English soldiers, and William helps her to escape. Incensed by this attack...