Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primarily caused by a flaw in the complex $2.3 billion rescue package that the state legislature had put together last month to carry the city into December. To guarantee that the state would have help in bailing out the city, the legislature had constructed a Rube Goldberg financing scheme that offered Big Mac $750 million in state loans-but only if the other parts fell into place first. They included $225 million from three state retirement funds and $500 million from five city employees' retirement funds. Among them was the teachers' retirement system, which pledged to provide...
...Poitier plays an Atlanta milkman named Clyde. Cosby is his best pal, a factory worker called Billy. With their wives, they take a weekend's jaunt to New Orleans, where they hope to raise money for the Sons and Daughters of Shaka, their ailing lodge back home. Their scheme does not promise success - or an especially funny movie: they hypnotize an emaciated, canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black. The odds...
...writers of the Sourcebook fairly glory in their womanhood, in their appreciation of feminism as a force "to enrich and diversify human life." Concomitant with this appreciation is a healthy distrust of those who would deny women their proper place in any scheme for societal and cultural revolution. And it is in this context that Marxist feminists and would-be "liberated" men come in for such a rough time. The problem with Marxists, says the Sourcebook, is that they fail to locate the problem of sexism where it belongs--in the oppression of women, as a class...
...bill, and the state pays onequarter. In view of the national service that New York has rendered, it deserves more federal aid. Some New Yorkers urge the U.S. to carry 75% of the city's welfare costs, as it does in a number of other states. A more limited scheme would reimburse New York City for the $110 million it pays in home relief-a program directed at people who have lost jobs in the recession...
...football referee, a church organist and a breeder of thoroughbred horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded seven fellow officers to help him try to kidnap the German Kaiser Wilhelm and deliver him as a Christmas present to President Woodrow Wilson. The scheme eventually failed, but the fact that MacPhail managed to nab one of the Kaiser's monogrammed ashtrays testified to how close the plotters had come to pulling...