Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while, no one could accuse him of failing to deliver on that promise. Reagan showed little interest in getting to know Soviet leaders. He proposed a dubious and potentially destabilizing scheme for space-based defenses. In a speech that will be remembered long after he leaves office, he stooped to rhetorical depths not seen since the onset of the cold war, decrying the U.S.S.R. as the "focus of evil in the modern world . . . an evil empire." So what was the most conservative President of the modern age doing in the Grand Kremlin Palace, amid the zinc columns and gilt bronze...
...Viking Lander probes, by contrast, could only radio data from soil samples back from Mars. This time, the samples would be returned to earth aboard the Soviet craft after a period of quarantine, possibly aboard an earth-orbiting space station. Says a NASA official: "It's a scheme that has a lot of attractive aspects." Estimated cost to the U.S.: a cool $2.5 billion and six years of prelaunch labor. The round-trip mission itself would take two years...
Investigators were amazed at how far the scheme proceeded before being discovered. If the gang had settled for smaller amounts or picked accounts that were less active, the crime might have gone undetected long enough for the culprits to withdraw the money from the Viennese banks. Says an investigator connected with the case: "They came a lot closer than the banks want to acknowledge...
...Chairman and his board of embezzlers made crucial mistakes, but they exposed many of the flaws in the banks' security systems. If those flaws are not fixed, copycat crooks may try new, improved versions of the scheme. Warns First Chicago Spokesman Anthony Zehnder: "There are a lot of people out there taking notes...
...important early proponent of Star Wars was Robert McFarlane; initially, the scheme was part of McFarlane's elaborate covert operation to lure the Soviets -- and the President himself -- into an arms-control deal...