Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American counterpart, the Cosa Nostra. Tons of morphine base were smuggled from Turkey to Sicily, processed into 1,650 lbs. of heroin, then sneaked through airports and distributed by pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. More than $40 million in profits went back to Sicily in a laundering scheme involving banks in New York, Switzerland, Bermuda and the Bahamas...
Since Joe and I go way back--we ran a mail-fraud scheme together in high school--I took an opportunity to conduct a exclusive personal interview with the man one astute observer described as "the next Bruce Babbit...
...President did not examine the nature of the Iran arms scheme or the full consequences of U.S. participation. Though committed to freeing the American hostages, the commission found, Reagan "appears to have proceeded with a concept of the initiative that was not accurately reflected in the reality of the operation...
...blacks who rank higher than sergeant. In the U.S. Supreme Court last week, the issue of promotions ensured the troopers one more spot in the history books. In another in the maze of rulings that have defined the ground rules for affirmative action, the court upheld an intricate scheme aimed at compelling integration of the higher ranks. To prod the troopers to offer an acceptable plan, a lower court temporarily required the force to promote one black trooper for every white promoted to each rank, if there were qualified blacks available, until they constituted 25% of that rank...
There is disagreement on how much national service would cost. The Pentagon says a program for civilian and military duty would be too expensive. In Moskos' scheme, though, the Pentagon would drastically reduce military pay, pensions and family allowances for junior members of the enlisted ranks, and the savings would cover the costs of the civilian side of the program. He estimates a program for 650,000 civilian volunteers would cost about $7 billion a year. In his plan, an additional 350,000 low-paying places would be available in the military...