Word: scheme
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Despite his candor, Evans leaves out some intriguing material. There's no mention of his friend Heidi Fleiss, for example, and he makes just a throwaway reference to his role in a stock scheme that allegedly scammed millions from investors. Even the Cotton Club murder gets short shrift; it's dispensed with in 14 pages. Still, Evans demonstrates that despite his years in Hollywood, he has the right values: he devotes a mere four pages to his tennis game...
Mario Jefferson, celebrated earlier in the week for apprehending the man suspected of attacking civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, is himself a criminal, according to the FBI. He is charged with taking part in a scheme to steal $65,000 from a bank automatic-teller machine in 1991. The feds recognized Jefferson, 27, in a television interview...
...prescription drugs and other products that used the AARP name in their marketing. The AARP stressed that its payment did not imply any admission that it would owe taxes on such income in the future. Nevertheless, the settlement sent a chill through the non-profit world, where the AARP scheme is an oft-used money-maker...
...appears to be backing off its Aug. 13 agreement with the U.S. to scrap construction of conventional nuclear reactors in return for a modern, American-aided light-water reactor. Rejecting South Korea's demand that it open its nuclear program to full inspection in return for the light-water scheme, North Korea claimed that two sites are in military areas and off limits...
While he originally endorsed a scheme by Republican liberal John Chafee, the minority leader now sees that plan as bad politics because it would require individuals to provide their own coverage. Instead, Dole has crafted his own health-care plan, a spare model based on changes in insurance practices and subsidies for the working poor. Forty of the Senate's 44 Republicans promptly signed on; party conservatives praised him for rescuing the G.O.P. health-care initiative. As he campaigns for G.O.P. candidates, Dole promises voters that if nothing passes in 1994 and if they send more Republicans to Congress...