Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe Paul will give up his case and enjoy his last summer with his friends before they all go their separate ways to college. I hope so. Because after this summer, high school will seem both far away and less and less important in the grand scheme of things. There's time enough at Harvard to act self-important and pretend that one's own goals and aims are based on universal principles. Paul Siemens needs to accept with good grace that he's not valedictorian and get on with life...
...measure of the attention to details of this movie--the acting, the dialogue, the scenery, etc.--that the plotline doesn't sink with the audience. A scheme to take over the world using an explosive device is hardly fresh or entertaining, but it doesn't really hinder "The Shadow" that much...
...strained by a battle of wills between Clinton Administration officials and Prosecutor-General De Greiff, who had pursued plea-bargain deals with major traffickers, offering them as little as three years in prison in exchange for guilty pleas. U.S. officials denounced the program, and in response cut off a scheme in which they shared evidence with Colombian prosecutors. More recently, the Clinton Administration suspended an operation in which AWACS surveillance aircraft identified for Colombian law enforcement small planes thought to be carrying drugs; in what was seen as a conciliatory move, the U.S. last week announced the program would...
...former Soviet satellite in its convulsive lurch toward capitalism. Anything is possible for a man with a dream and no scruples about realizing it. Karol plunges into the black market, into real estate and international finance; he comes this close to murder. And all in an elaborate scheme to lure Dominique to Poland for some sweet, fatal revenge...
...bend is the best indication that he may see a reform package on his desk this fall. For weeks, Senate Finance Committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan had been trying to convince the White House that he lacked the votes to pass any plan, much less the Administration's grandiose scheme. The sticking point has been Clinton's employer mandates, which would require employers to pay 80% of the cost of health insurance for all full-time workers. Fearing depressed profits and warning of layoffs, small-business lobbyists generated enough opposition to effectively kill that provision. What Moynihan then needed...