scheme
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The scheme has heavy polluters pay for the greenhouse gases they emit, obliging them to buy allowances that are capped in number, sold in auctions and tradeable.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Under the scheme every household would receive an "Essential Energy Allowance", which would provide "enough to get by" and be charged at a discounted price.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
The cattle empire that turned out to be a giant Ponzi scheme.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
With more than 1.7 million members, the scheme is one of the largest in the UK.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
For decades before the Mona Lisa theft, he’d been suspected of every con, every forgery, every eccentric scheme: if the job was brilliant, it might be the work of Adam Worth.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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