Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already deployed in ICBM silos would be supplemented by another 50 "garrisoned" on special railroad cars stationed on military bases. If a U.S.-Soviet confrontation loomed, the missiles would be moved out on 180,000 miles of railway across the nation. The main advantage of this scheme is its relatively low price tag: an estimated $12 billion for 50 missiles carrying 500 warheads. A somewhat cheaper option ($8 billion) would shift the existing silo-based MX's to railroad flatcars...
...case evolved from the testimony of Boesky, who fingered West Coast broker Boyd Jefferies. The Government alleges that GAF used Jefferies as a participant in a scheme to manipulate the price of shares in Union Carbide. Prosecutors claim that GAF, which held a large block of Carbide stock as the result of an unsuccessful bid to take over the company, tried to run up the price of the shares before selling them. After many days of technical presentations about stock trading, the jury may have become numbed by it all. Even so, federal prosecutors vowed to try the case again...
...convicted in connection with a major New York betting scandal at Roosevelt and Yonkers raceways. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $10,000. In 1984 Perry pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sports bribery as part of the notorious Boston College point-shaving scheme. At the trial, recalls Edward McDonald, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, N.Y. Perry was referred to as Richie ("the Fixer") Perry...
...believe the collectives could be resuscitated with an infusion of government funds, Gorbachev stopped short of true privatization. Even as he gave an approving nod to "individual property," Gorbachev announced that conversion to free farming would be on a "voluntary" basis. He also made clear that the leasing scheme would fall within the framework of the collective system...
...launches a plot against the Count (David Kravitz) who wants Susanna and doesn't return the Countess' love as he should. Basically, Susanna wants Figaro, the Count wants Susanna and the Countess wants the Count. Throw in a case of a lovesick teenager (Cherubino), recruited to aid in the scheme by the women, and a subplot where the orphaned Figaro learns the identities of his real parents, and you get some really dangerous liaisons...