scheme
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By February this year German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was openly questioning the scheme.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
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
The cattle empire that turned out to be a giant Ponzi scheme.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
The company's contract to run the Royal Mail pension scheme was terminated later that month.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
And finally, and perhaps more obviously, he attacked Pythagoras’s scheme with the most self-evident of arguments: it could not possibly account for female anatomy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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