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** A Ponzi scheme claims to rely on some esoteric investment approach and often attracts well-to-do investors ; whereas pyramid schemes explicitly claim that new money will be the source of payout for the initial investments.
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** In a Ponzi scheme, the schemer acts as a " hub " for the victims, interacting with all of them directly.
** Boston Post, for its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest.
** and scheme
** Frequency-hopping spread spectrum ( FHSS ) applies a special scheme for channel release
** GSSAPI authentication methods which provide an extensible scheme to perform SSH authentication using external mechanisms such as Kerberos 5 or NTLM, providing single sign on capability to SSH sessions.
** Cycling Centre of Excellence, which promotes cycling in London and manages the contract with Serco for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme
** A non maskable interrupt ( NMI ) which can be used to respond to power down situations and / or other high priority events ( and allowing a minimalistic Z80 system to easily implement a two-level interrupt scheme in mode 1 ).
** Oral arguments begin in the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U. S. 1 ( 1967 ), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.
** feed URI scheme, a non-standard URI scheme designed to facilitate subscription to web feeds
** Diversity gain, the increase in signal-to-interference ratio due to a diversity scheme
** A pyramid scheme typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it.
** Boreal climate, the climate found in a region of boreal forests, and designated Dfc, Dwc or Dsc in the Köppen climate classification scheme.
** Great Britain road numbering scheme
** Administering the Blue Plaques scheme in London since 1986.
** The type of occupational pension scheme ( if any ) to which the employee and / or employer make contributions
There are three types: ** Pioneers ** Close followers ** Late followers * Growth strategies — In this scheme we ask the question, “ How should the firm grow ?”.
** Pass Plus, a United Kingdom scheme to improve driving skills among young drivers
** DIN 31635, an Arabic transliteration scheme.
** House Energy Rating scheme in Australia
** During the 2010 All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. will run a special paint scheme featuring the JR Foundation Logo on the hood, to commemorate this occasion.
** Dale Jarrett raced a " reverse " paint scheme in 1999 where his entire car's colour scheme was reversed for breast cancer research.
** For the 1994 Hooters 500, his final race, the car was based on a 1981 paint scheme with Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham.
** and claims
** Error theory, another form of moral anti-realism, holds that although ethical claims do express propositions, all such propositions are false.
** Quasi-realism, defended by Simon Blackburn, holds that ethical statements behave linguistically like factual claims and can be appropriately called " true " or " false ", even though there are no ethical facts for them to correspond to.
** At 146 mph ( 235 km / h ) US model top speed, Porsche boldly claims the 928S to be " the fastest street legal production car sold in the US ".
** For instance, when a magazine claims that An MIT professor predicts that the robotic era is coming in 2050, the use of big-name " MIT " ( a world-renowned American university for the advanced research in math, science, and technology ) establishes the " strong " credibility.
** The worst coal dust explosion to date, in Honkeiko, China, claims 1, 549 lives.
** El Asnam, Algeria is destroyed by an earthquake, which claims more than 2, 600 lives.
** The U. S. Senate accepts the British-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.
** Radio Peking claims that U. S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan ( the U. S. denies the story the next day ).
** The Harris Poll claims that 60 % of Americans are against the Vietnam War.
** A midair collision between Hughes Airwest Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U. S. Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California, claims 50 lives.
** The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.
** John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut ( released in August 1991 ) – 3 others are found dead ; Revolutionary Cells ( RZ ) claims responsibility in retaliation for the U. S. bombing of Libya.
** Syllabus errorum: Pope Pius IX condemns theological liberalism as an error and claims for the supremacy of Roman Catholic Church authority over the civil society.
** The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the life of 96 Liverpool supporters.
** has a fully back variant, qualitatively equivalent to cardinal 5, which Beaken ( 1971 ) claims characterizes " vigorous, informal " Cockney.
** A financial convention agreed on as a definitive settlement of the claims of the Holy See following the loss of its territories and property
** Benedictine Serinus Melba, a singer who claims to be pregnant by Chib.
** A press release from Argentina claims that their Huemul Project had produced controlled nuclear fusion.
** Lyman Spitzer dismisses the Argentinian claims, but while thinking about it comes up with the stellarator concept.
** U. S. states that ceded territorial claims in what would become the Northwest Territory:
** Marie Zhuge Ziqi ( 諸葛梓岐 ), Hong Kong based Canadian model, claims to be a descendant of Zhuge Liang.
** next-of-kin status for emergency medical decisions or filing wrongful death claims
** US states that ceded territorial claims to the Territory of Mississippi:
** British ace Major Edward Mannock claims his first kill.
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