Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were early signs that his financial wizardry was getting him into trouble. After an attempt by ISC to take over Colorado-based Holly Sugar Corp. in 1967, the Government indicted Kenneally's partner in the scheme for violating stock-purchase margin requirements and sent him to jail. Kenneally was named as an unindicted coconspirator. ISC had acquired $1 million worth of Holly's stock through a Uruguayan brokerage firm to avoid the margin rules, and then dumped its shares, for a $1.6 million profit, after dropping the takeover...
These imposing figures are apparently only the beginning of what President Sadat has in mind. After the signing, Sadat plans to stay on in Washington to push for U S acceptance of his $15 billion economic development scheme, which he calls "the Carter Plan." With some justification, the Egyptian President argues that his courageous pursuit of peace has isolated him dangerously in the Middle East Egypt is threatened by radical regimes in Libya and elsewhere. From within, it faces the same kind of Islamic fundamentalist forces that helped topple the Shah of Iran. The solution, Sadat believes, is to wage...
While the scheme had successful aspects, it also brought new problems. Says Robert Michels: "Thirty years ago, 75% of all psychiatric treatment was conducted in hospitals. Today, 75% takes place in an outpatient setting. That's progress." Still psychiatric patients fill 40% of all hospital beds in the nation, and the number of mental patients in nursing homes, prisons and single-room occupancy residences is up. Says Payne Whitney's John Talbott: "We've merely shifted the mentally ill population, not decreased...
...important victory," crowed Peking, proclaiming that "the Chinese armed forces exploded the myth of invincibility of the Asian Cuba," and thus also "dealt a telling blow to the Soviet Union's scheme of expansion in Southeast Asia...
...often strikingly effective in its own terms, followed Berg's structure erratically. He identified two of Lulu's customers with her former lovers but not the third. Where Berg set Lulu's grisly end in an attic, Chéreau was led by his monumental staging scheme to place it in what looked like an abandoned subway station...