Word: scheme
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...benefits and the employers deduct the insurance premiums from their taxable profits, an arrangement that is thought to cost the government $75 billion a year. But Clinton determined early that nothing labeled as a large tax increase would fly politically. So his planners were driven to a Rube Goldberg scheme of mechanisms designed to hold down costs of extending care to the uninsured; one lobbyist describes it as "an elaborate way of getting around having to tax people...
Forty-three names appear on a witness list released by Walsh's attorneys. Walsh is facing 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy for his alleged leadership in a scheme to defraud the Dime Savings Bank of New York of approximately $8 million. The money was reportedly used to finance condominium developments in Massachusetts...
...Nation of Islam operates restaurants, bakeries and fish markets. Members tithe, and some have donated for decades to buy farmland, a scheme Farrakhan pledges to finally put into action this summer. He vows to open a $3 million restaurant-and-bakery complex on Chicago's South Side, reopen a Nation of Islam supermarket and build a printing plant for the Final Call big enough to rent space. He recently bought a Chicago "business center" to house management and media operations as he expands into TV. He already has Nation of Islam bookstores that do a brisk business in tapes...
...Diller-killer." The notion of tossing in more cash or stock was quickly nixed as too costly. So were bigger warrants and increased dividends. After several such options were rejected, Greenhill turned to one of his whiz-kid investment-banking strategists, Michael Levitt, 35, who described a scheme he said would blow away Diller. The novel plan called for issuing a type of security, called a contingent value right, CVR, or "collar," that would guarantee the value of Viacom's bid if Viacom stock failed to reach a certain price level within three years of the merger. The guarantee could...
There's Pompey's conservative sister, Electra publicans (Aaron R. Zelman '95), and her Yale-educated slave Lucinda Lipps (J.P. Anderson '95). (She's Yale-educated, and she's a slave Get it?) They scheme to get Electra's airheaded daughter, Caesonia Phase (Adam D. Feldman '95) interested in the would be successor to the Roman throne, nerdy Nero Sited (Thomas F. Giordano...