Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found himself with some time to spare in Paris before flying on to the Balkans. So he went over to the U.S. embassy and engaged Ambassador Pamela Harriman in a stroll along the Seine. As they walked and chatted, the Commerce Secretary could barely contain his enthusiasm over a scheme he had just cooked up involving 200 Big Macs, which he had managed to persuade a McDonald's manager in Croatia to give him, free of charge. His plan was to pick up the burgers in Zagreb, fly them to Tuzla and pass them out to the U.S. troops...
...like them," recalled his former assistant, Melissa Moss. "He was missing the computer chip that said, 'Caution, you can't do this.'" The hotel also offered young Ron his first chance to sample the rewards of peddling influence. Until guests like Joe Louis got wind of the scheme and put a stop to it, he made a brief career of badgering famous guests for their autographs, then selling them to friends...
According to one of Jones' more insubstantial theories, the Oklahoma bombing may have been a government sting operation that got wildly out of hand. Strassmeir, he hypothesizes, may have been an FBI informant who attempted to entrap McVeigh in a phony bombing scheme, only to see his intended victim carry the plan to its conclusion. Two weeks before the bombing, McVeigh placed a call to Elohim City, and Jones believes that McVeigh was trying to reach Strassmeir. McVeigh isn't saying whom he was calling. Strassmeir says in any case no one told him about the call or summoned...
...babies born from long-frozen embryos, it is also conceivable that such a "machine" will act as a sentient being capable of experiencing life just as does a human. But does that diminish the mystery and glory of consciousness? Does it change its unique place in the fundamental scheme of things in this universe? Can we ever objectively solve the mystery of consciousness through consciousness? MANI L. BHAUMIK Los Angeles...
...just like to scheme," Lester says. "I think that counts as extracurricular...