Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard defense was getting used to the new scheme, there were breakdowns, and so the Yale offense had plenty of good chances to score throughout the game...
Buell lauded this plan for having "the largest transfer of talent," but said the scheme is the most expensive of the three and "the potential coordinating problems are the greatest...
...columnist Lawrence Kudlow, and Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley. Observes Kristol, a senior Bush Administration official: "Newt's a complicated man; there's a lot of ego there, and there's a little bit of susceptibility to grandiose promises. He can sort of invent this giant scheme for the future, and his acolytes tell him that it's great." Still, said one participant, "I don't agree with Newt on everything, but there's virtually no other elected official in Washington who could or would sit at the table and argue about ideas...
...great scheme of things, the issue of whether or not the Fly and other final clubs eventually decide to admit women is trivial. In truth, the clubs occupy a tiny space on the very periphery of life at Harvard, and only a very small number of self-important men belong to them anyway...
After four semesters of seeking a way to foil the council's "optional" tax scheme, I recently stumbled across one. It is possible, I have learned, to get around the ridiculous refund procedure and finally reclaim your money from the incompetent and deceitful council...