Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peddler who over the past decade spent millions of dollars in Washington to head off threatened cutbacks in U.S. military aid or the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. In fact, TIME has learned, federal investigators have turned up evidence that Park was a master swindler. In a scheme worthy of Terry and the Pirates, he tricked both his friends and his government, siphoned off much of the money for his own use and, after his close association with a handful of Congressmen became a scandal, scampered to London last fall, one step ahead...
Dukakis' workfare scheme represents a novel attempt to zero in on the most exasperating welfare problem of all: the consistent failure of men, physically fit and in need of work to support families, to find jobs, either through state agencies or the federal work incentive program. Workfare confronts one legal hazard that could destroy it: Congress has enacted a law that bars the use of federal welfare funds as salaries, and the U.S. Government matches the state's $11 million contribution for jobless fathers of needy families. Dukakis' aides have discovered, however, that authorities in Utah have...
...France Pisier), who is seduced and abandoned by an American pilot (John Beck) while she is pregnant. She goes on to sleep her way to the top of the French film industry and become the mistress of an Onassis-like Greek magnate (Raf Vallone), all the while nursing a scheme of vengeance against Beck. Sarandon plays the perky Washington public relations girl whom Beck marries before Pisier finally gets him under her thumb and between her sheets...
...important skirmishes. By big majorities, the committee scrapped the Carter idea to award rebates to buyers of small, economical cars, a provision that could have favored imported vehicles over Detroit's products. Ways and Means also decided to delay for a year, until the fall of 1979, a scheme to impose heavy taxes on large "gas-guzzling" cars and redefined guzzlers as cars that get 15 m.p.g., v. 18 m.p.g. as in the Administration's plan. Most severely, it rejected the Administration's unpopular attempt to raise federal gasoline taxes as much as 50? per gal. during...
Field's book contains - to use the last words of Ada - "much, much more." Whether by scheme or coincidence, that novel flew like Zeno's paradoxical arrow. Part 1 took up half the book. Part 2 was half of one remaining half, etc., ad infinitum. Perhaps this was Nabokov's metaphor for the inexhaustible magic of memory. Field, too, stoically accepts the fact that he can never quite reach his target. Yet he still manages to track the flight of genius...