Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...date, 130 people have faced charges in connection with tax frauds involving some $80 million in unpaid taxes. In one case, three men were convicted earlier this year in an elaborate scheme involving a bogus construction company and tax-exemption frauds. They handed the $320,000 the company collected over to the I.N.L.A. The judge in the case, Michael Nicholson, called the swindles "one of the most important sources of cash for terrorists...
...usual in these sad days, filthy lucre is the mother of innovation. The preponderance of American accents in Parliament is yet another cunning British scheme to milk its antiquity for all that it is worth. Not content with turning the entire country into its meager conception of a tourist's paradise, England has gone it one better and changed its government to suit the times. Penury again is the cause of change...
...watch the Iranians rolling their explosive cargo into the sea. Under questioning, some of the sailors admitted what they were doing and even told where they had dropped the lethal charges. U.S. Navy SEALs (sea, air and land commandos) who boarded the vessel found charts detailing the mine- laying scheme. This helped the Navy locate and disarm seven other mines that the Iran Ajr had dropped into the sea-lanes...
...Japanese company's president ordered his export sales manager to "do what had to be done to get the business," the report says. That launched more than a year of globe hopping and clandestine meetings between Toshiba executives and Soviet officials, who eventually hatched a scheme to slip altered equipment past Japan's export watchdog, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry...
...scheme apparently began on March 27, 1986, when a CIA employee on Government business bought 95 $1 stamps at the McLean, Va., post office. The image on the stamps was an austere candlestick; the inscription read AMERICA'S LIGHT FUELED BY TRUTH AND REASON. At CIA headquarters in Langley, a clerk , noticed that an orange halo that should have surrounded the candle flame was instead printed in the lower right-hand corner. The curiosity was shown to several co-workers; one of them was a philatelist who realized that the misprints were collectors' items...