Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The House Ethics Committee, with Democrats and Republicans united, formally charged Speaker Jim Wright (D Texas) yesterday with 69 violations of the chamber's rules, including what the panel's chair called "a scheme to evade" limits on outside earnings...
...committee's view, seven bulk sales of Rep. Wright's book... demonstrated an overall scheme to evade the House outside earned income limit because [speaking] honorarium payments were recharacterized as royalties," Dixon said...
...Establishing a five-year, $100 million program to zone the Amazon region for agriculture, mining and other uses. The zoning scheme would be partly financed by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization...
...outfit their homes with otherwise unavailable dream goods. The Soviet government, which officially frowns on such lavish spending of hard currency, limits how many rubles its citizens can change into dollars for their trip (7 rubles, or $11.20, a day). But they manage to raise the cash. A favored scheme is to carry jewelry to sell...
...rigueur, thanks to its popularity among postmodernists, who see it as a daring and prophetic form of backwardness -- as well as the paintings of his hardly less talented brother, the painter-composer-dram atist who worked under the name of Alberto Savinio and turned the late scheme of metaphysical painting into an even wilder pastiche than it had already become...