Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bust took 18 months of sleuthing. Starting with a tip in late 1974, federal investigators painstakingly pieced together the facts of an intricate $20 mil lion Medicaid scheme and indicted 16 people in Chicago two weeks ago. By last week six of them had pleaded guilty, and one indicted doctor had committed suicide. The case is the latest example of the fastest-growing form of white-collar crime: ripping off Uncle Sam's multibillion-dollar social-welfare programs. But with the Chicago indictments, Uncle also served notice that he is finding new ways to strike back...
...illustration at random: the patriarch devises a system for beating the weekly lottery. His scheme to fulfill this child-like desire is a transparent cheat any kid could see through. Three blindfolded children select numbered balls from three bags. The patriarch invariably holds the number they choose. (The correct balls are frozen, so the children can feel which ones to pick...
...Social Democrats as architects of a spreading and insensitive bureaucracy is probably what led many young Swedes to become relatively conservative and thus vote, as they did last week, against the socialists. Fear of further concentration of power underlay another key campaign issue: the opposition to a labor union scheme for the gradual transfer of control to the unions of all private enterprises...
Green says that knowing and loving the Creator of the Universe changes his perspective on the scheme of things, and that out of that love naturally grows a commitment to serve...
...theaters and a number of enterprising museums. And even Mencken noted: "[In the South] some attention was also given to the art of living-that life got beyond and above the state of a mere infliction and became an exhilarating experience. A certain noble spaciousness was in the Southern scheme of things." That ideal has been translated into magnificent urban structures in Atlanta, Houston, Charlotte and smaller cities. Yet Southern urbanites are not captives of the city: they can swiftly dodge away to a country music festival, a fishing trip or an autumn dove shoot...