Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chandelier of the dining room adds a serendipitous touch, though its potential brilliance is noticeably ignored in the lighting scheme. To the set Emily Baehr and Rosetta Lee add an eye-catching array of elegant gowns and tails for the cast, though leave your modern sensibilities about hairdos at the door--no woman's head is left untouched in the quest for historical accuracy...
City Councillor William H. Walsh has spent six weeks in the twelfth floor of the federal courtroom standing trial on 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy. Walsh allegedly masterminded a scheme to defraud Dime Savings Bank of New York of approximately $8 million...
Memory is all we have. And when the memories are dreadful -- when they hold images of the pain we have suffered or, perhaps even worse, inflicted -- they are what we try to escape. The Nazi scheme to exterminate Jews and other undesirables is one such nightmare image; and Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg's drama about the man who saved 1,100 Jews from the Plaszow death camp, is essentially a plea by a preeminent popular artist that to remember is to speed the healing. Last week that moving Holocaust memorial became a mobile one, as the film opened...
...supporting its most emotionally appealing proposals instead of seeking to shore up the single measure that has been proved to work: more cops on the beat. Last week, for example, Vice President Al Gore offered the Administration's version of a "three strikes and you're out" scheme that modifies the crime bill's harsh life-imprisonment language only slightly by narrowing the list of applicable felonies. Any three-strikes proposal, however, will affect only several hundred federal inmates each year. "We hope the states follow suit," says a Clinton aide, an inefficient course that could bankrupt those that...
...cables, did everything in its power to make sure nobody had a code that it couldn't break. It kept tight reins on the "keys" used to translate coded text into plain text, prohibiting the export of secret codes under U.S. munitions laws and ensuring that the encryption scheme used by business -- the so-called Digital Encryption Standard -- was weak enough that NSA supercomputers could cut through it like butter...