Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lions will test him with a swarming, if familiar, defensive scheme. Columbia modeled its defense on Harvard's after the Crimson's dominant 1997 season. The "Attack Eight" set is predicated upon quickness and applying suffocating pressure all over the field...
...Councillors most vehement about Walsh's removal are those who, unlike Walsh, favor Cambridge's system of rent control. We at Dartboard wonder if Walsh and his opponents are really so far apart. Walsh used a realestate scheme to line his pockets at a bank's expense, his opponents used an equally odious scheme to line their constituents' pockets at landowners' expense. Walsh just made the mistake of indulging his cupidity privately, rather than under color of law. Such is logic in the People's Republic of Cambridge...
...WALSH (right) became the first elected Cambridge official to be convicted of a crime since 1941. The controversial politician was found guilty in U.S. District Court last week on 41 counts of bank fraud and making false statements, but still refuses to resign his council seat. Walsh headed a scheme that defrauded the Dime Savings Bank of New York out of $2.9 million...
Fortunately for Boris Yeltsin, tales of corruption are a big yawn in Moscow. An Italian newspaper on Thursday accused Russia?s president of taking bribes, while USA Today alleges that he presided over a $15 billion money laundering scheme. But the allegations are unlikely to dent Yeltsin?s already negligible popularity. "The Russian people are suffering scandal burnout," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Some of these allegations have long been aired in the Russian press ? although they?re dismissed by the Kremlin. Charges of corruption at the highest level don?t have much shock value in this country...
...knees and block the way to the toilet. Well, the ones on American Airlines flights from Colombia have been carrying a lot more than just bland airline food. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested more than 50 employees of the airline and its subcontractors in Miami Wednesday, after exposing a scheme in which drugs were concealed in the carts loaded in Colombia and then removed on arrival in the U.S. An undercover sting operation had also enticed the suspects into smuggling weapons and explosives aboard planes. Agents began investigating the smuggling ring after in-flight coffee, which an American pilot...