Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial, a Copenhagen court found him guilty on a host of charges involving fraud and tax evasion and directed him to pay $880,000 in fines and back taxes. Glistrup's chief crime: swindling the state out of more than $1 million by exploiting tax loopholes in a scheme so labyrinthine that it took a team of investigators nearly three years to unravel...
...Maryland in which the driver was legally culpable, only 20% occurred on critical days-just the proportion the scientists expected. Says Andrew Ahlgren, a University of Minnesota researcher who studies body rhythms: "I'm surprised the Hopkins team would even bother. Biorhythm theory is a silly numerological scheme that contradicts everything we know about biological rhythms with their dozens of variables and differences from person to person...
Input. This section translates information from a variety of devices into a code that the computer understands. In Babbage's scheme, the manual turning of counters or use of punched cards provided the input...
...radical force within the Cabinet, and in 1963 pushed through one of the most important measures of that period: nationalization of the province's private electrical utilities into Hydro-Quebec (current assets: $6.5 billion). At the time Lévesque was labeled "René the Red" for his advocacy of the scheme. He was twitted by Trudeau, then a Montreal law professor, for insisting on a full takeover of the utilities. Partial takeover was enough, said Trudeau; spending public funds to own more than that was an expensive currying of nationalist pride. Lévesque was a strong Quebec nationalist even then. Said...
...celebrity at any price, and that may be a mistake. Winkler's essential intelligence shines through anything he does, and it would not make his character's strange fate any less funny if, finally, he were permitted to discover that there was some thing missing from his scheme of values...