Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets Thorntonnominated for a film virtually nobody saw. Toobad, because A Simple Plan was a fantasticdrama--the type of movie Hollywood should producebut purposely abandons (note the lack ofpromotion). As the lead character's slightlyretarded brother, Thorton convinces us that heultimately cannot find a reason to live when aninnocent scheme spirals into disaster--andconvinces him that life has just become one lieafter another...
...addition, the Department of Justice has charged Fisher with orchestrating an illegal kickback and referral program that directed business to the Millers' Shasta Pharmacy. According to the press release, the scheme resulted in more than $1 million of improper drug billings to Medi-Cal, the state-run health care system...
...ambition-laden) moralism and his realism. Among Kissinger's great mistakes, for example, was thinking he could negotiate with Jackson a compromise level of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union that would convince the Senator to support detente, or that he could convince Schlesinger to support an arms-limitation scheme based on realistic numbers. Kissinger also tacitly concedes that the secretive methods he used in negotiating with Russia, China and Vietnam made it harder for him to win sustained support from the bureaucracy and Congress...
...looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do on their summer vacation (misspent in upper-crust Manhattan and Long Island) is the same old story--an elaborate scheme to deflower a couple of virgins (Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair) whose virtue irritates and challenges them. As in all the other versions of this story, they succeed, but eventually receive a morally satisfying comeuppance...
...chemical feed-stocks used to make the drug. With control of the ingredients in hand, the FTC charged, Mylan could demand whatever price it wanted for the finished product. The FTC is now trying to force Mylan to "disgorge" $120 million in allegedly "ill-gotten gains" from the scheme. As FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky told TIME, "Mylan's illegal conduct deprived some consumers of access to these important drugs and put their health at risk...