Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impetus for the tutoring scheme came from Donald Davis, chairman of Stanley Works, the Connecticut-based toolmaker. In a visit to Poland in the early 1980s, says he, "I was overwhelmed by the lack of management know- how." Davis began organizing the program almost two years ago with the help of the International Executive Service Corps, which sends retired managers to help businesses in developing countries. Davis hopes to organize ten visiting-manager projects this year and as many...
Miller carries out this scheme almost too subtly, turning the City of Nets into a collection of pseudo movie sets, illuminated by camera lights. "I haven't made the references to Los Angeles too explicit, because that demythologizes it. I set Mahagonny in a film studio, but there is no attempt & to have real scenery. I don't press too hard...
...Middle East is never short of peace plans, only of peace. Last week both the Israeli government and Palestinian groups were engaged in heated internal discussions over the latest proposal for holding elections in the occupied territories. Forwarded by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the plan loosely parallels an election scheme put forth last April by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. But Mubarak's version includes some provisions that the Israeli leader has already rejected, including the participation of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the exchange of land for peace...
...about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers from the Dijin, a police special-operations team, hustled Eduardo Martinez Romero out the back door of a maximum-security Bogota jail while other officers distracted reporters and photographers gathered in front. Martinez, wanted in Atlanta in connection with a $1.2 billion money-laundering scheme, was taken aboard a jet owned by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and flown to his long-postponed rendezvous with U.S. justice...
...dams and settlements, often with funding and technical advice from the World Bank, the European Community and Japan. Two of the largest -- and, to the rain forest, most threatening -- projects are Grande Carajas, a giant development program that includes a major mining complex, and Polonoroeste, a highway-and-settlement scheme...