scheme
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The center of the scheme, authorities said, was Chandrakant “Lala” Patel, the friendly owner of a Subway and other small businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
And in Northern Ireland, a phone-free pilot scheme in nine schools has just ended, with a report due to be published in June.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
The regulator last month penalized the auditor of Infinity Q Capital Management over an alleged overvaluation scheme involving a private-fund.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
In another alleged scheme, Amazon raised prices on price-matched items and asked its vendors to have competitors raise their prices.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
But all that was required to abolish this conceptual scheme was an insistence on direct as opposed to indirect experience.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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