Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel scheme has sparked bitterness among Chelsea teachers and the school committee, who say it gives B.U. too much power. B.U.'s blunt-spoken president, John Silber, admits that the program "is not going to be run like a Quaker meeting." B.U. originally proposed that a university-appointed board would make most school decisions. Outraged school committee members successfully lobbied for the right to to overrule verdicts on the budget or school policy with a two-thirds vote. However, B.U. would still hold most of the cards...
...Richmond can impose such a plan if there is no evidence that the city itself has ever discriminated. Invalidating the plan could jeopardize similar set-aside arrangements around the country. In another case, Martin v. Wilks, the Justices will consider whether white fire fighters can challenge an affirmative-action scheme reached through an agreement between blacks and the city of Birmingham that was approved without the whites taking part. Ordinarily, third parties are barred from going to court to object to "consent decrees" once they have been reached...
...indictment also accused the Marcoses of a scheme to buy $5.9 million in art objects and of transporting money and certain works of art they knew to be stolen...
...still need to work on our 6-on-5 defense and offense," Bentley said. "We just didn't convert this weekend. There is still a lack of awareness of the other team's defense and offense. We're not seeing the whole scheme of things...
This thought so disturbed Dewitt, he soon devised a scheme...