Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commonwealth of Massachussetts pension fund, which had also originally committed funds to KKR's limited partnership, pulled out because it did not approve of the hostile takeover process or RJR's connections to South Africa. Harvard's administrators, however, saw nothing wrong with donating University resources to this scheme...
...passengers were injured. Nir, a former aide to Shimon Peres and to Yitzhak Shamir, worked closely with North in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran, traveled with him to Tehran in the attempted arms-for-hostage exchanges and briefed Vice President Bush on the ill-fated scheme...
There are many problems with the cable scheme that would have to be resolved before it could become a reality. Lowell House Master William H. Bossert said also that there is the question of whether every student will be required to purchase cable service. He supports the plan "only if it allows each student to decide whether to subscribe or not on an annual basis...
...when coaches set up a new blocking scheme,they are teaching the linemen the value ofteamwork as much as they are setting up a winningstrategy for next week...
...response to Popular Front appeals, some local planners are touting a scheme to turn the Baltic States into "self-financing" republics, fiscally independent of Moscow and empowered to manage their natural resources. Language is another concern: last month the Estonian supreme soviet issued a draft law declaring Estonian the official language of the republic. Plans are also being discussed to introduce a form of Estonian citizenship as a step toward controlling immigration...