Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected President, $500,000 was given to opposition party personnel. An expenditure of $350,000 was authorized to bribe the Chilean Congress, which at that time was faced with deciding a run-off election between Allende and the opposition candidate. The bribe would have been part of a scheme to overturn the results of the election in which Allende had gained a plurality, but that plan, although originally approved by the 40 Committee, was later evaluated as unworkable...
...most highly regarded credits are shanghaiing an oil tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called Mission Bell in suburban Los Angeles...
Leonard defends his scheme for the institute's development by emphasizing the importance of "maintaining the independence of integrity of its scholarship." He argues that Afro-American research has been neglected for such a long time that scholars must now be given the chance to devote their full attention to their studies...
This summer, Cabot finished naming all but one of the partners and associates for the Harvard Management staff. Most of the new partners and associates have spent the last few months acclimating themselves to the Harvard investment scheme and are now picking up their respective tasks in managing Harvard's investments...
...status and who leaves Paul a shiny .32 to remind him of the American legacy. Paul comes back to New York with the heater in one hand and brilliant and revolutionary planning designs in the other, but his feverish little mind is burning with a much grander scheme. Paul decides to kill muggers, and he murders a dozen of them before the police finally snag him. The cops know, however, that to announce his arrest and put him on trial would be to make a martyr of him, so they give him till sunset to get out of town...