Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal investigators would not disclose how much money Estes made from the arrangement, but his partners have been ordered by a state court to repay $600,000 to the leasing companies. Said an investigator in the Texas attorney general's office: "The overall scheme bears a striking resemblance to the old fertilizer tanks. That was the first thing that caught...
Sponsors of the tax cuts intend them to help balance the federal budget, but leading Democrats called the plan "a Rube Goldberg scheme" that would cripple Congress's economic policy-making powers...
...take advantage of new computer technology the University switched two years ago from a 19th century cataloguing scheme to the standardized Library of Congress (L.C.) scheme...
Early in September, Syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson published a story hinting that the Justice Department's decision to stop trying to extradite Vesco was proof that his influence-buying scheme had succeeded. Anderson also obtained sworn statements from Herring's secretary, Geralynne Hobbs, that she had typed and mailed to Jordan and Kirbo several letters about Vesco's proposals...
...anchorman's enormous popularity. A faction in the state television monopoly wanted to replace the reigning crew of bland newsreaders with a single, reassuringly credible, American-style anchorman-en effet, a French Walter Cronkite. In 1974 French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made that scheme possible by splitting the monopoly into three parts. Officials of Télévision Française I, one of the new state-owned but competing channels, were given only two months to find a suitable anchor, so they took a long shot: Roger Gicquel, a relatively obscure former airline...