Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country would build such a device, the circumstances sound strangely familiar, "In the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. The Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year...
...Crisis magazine article, Counter suggested that certain "para-white ethnic groups," notably "Euro-American individuals and special interests with powerful influence in the media" were participants in an "ethnic scheme designed to denigrate Afro-Americans." The article, though well-encoded, seemed to echo traditional anti-Semitic refrains about alleged Jewish media conspiracies...
...political fantasy." But without waiting for details, many voters have been far more critical of Cuomo's own, more modest $1.6 billion cut, seen as cynical from a man who could have proposed it long before the election (much like his last-minute scheme to lower state electricity rates by buying the huge Lilco utility). Says Lee Miringoff of Marist College, one of many pollsters who have chronicled a Pataki lead of about 44% to 40%: "Cuomo has a problem: he's running on his past record. Pataki, on the other hand, has no appreciable past...
...work 70-hour weeks? You don't actually contreebute to the grand scheme (this word he emphasized) of things by making millions for other people. If I were you, I'd stay in school as long you can, cheeldren. Why, just look at me!" With that, he proudly lifted his lapel to uncover a small namecard that read, "MY NAME IS Igor...
Though we suspect Higgins meant the 'People's Republic of Cambridge' (calling something a republic is not usually an insult, after all), we agree wholeheartedly with his sentiment. It is our hope that the ill-conceived scheme called rent control meets a decisive end in November...