Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the council approved the consulting fee, council members expressed skepticism over the scheme...
With Moscow reflexively fearful of any scheme it can't dominate -- "They're world champions at improving on nightmares," says Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott -- Washington is walking a tightrope of incoherence. Clinton swore again last week that nato will expand, but slowly, so as to avoid a "differently divided Europe." Yet that, of course, is exactly what an enlarged NATO would mean...
...Soviet military intelligence arm). He tipped off the cia that the Soviets had a plan to create anti-German sentiment in the U.S. by planting explosives in bars and restaurants frequented in Germany by American service members (Varenik's role in the KGB scheme was to find places where the explosives could be hidden). "Gennadi," says one insider, "saved American lives...
...improve the lives of the nation's impoverished black majority. Naidoo reports progress-196,000 new houses are in the pipeline-but he acknowledges that results have been slow. Mandela repeatedly demonstrates his grasp of practical details. For example, he advises Naidoo to look into a low-cost housing scheme emphasizing self-reliance that he recently observed in Namibia...
...having been viewed as distinct from the European immigrants." With a disturbing lack of historical perspective, proponents of ethnic studies argue that America has welcomed all peoples of "white" background into the fold, while all "non white" Americans have been relegated to the periphery. This black and white scheme ignores the diverse experiences of people from both non-white and white backgrounds. It presumes a unity of each "side" that is patently false...