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He wants to build a 200-room tourist hotel on the Opgard grazing land, and his scheme is to finance the project with local villagers putting up their property as collateral.

Is that mass of cream cheese you put on a bagel a schemer or a shmeer?

And, second, how can he bust a drug dealer and a Ponzi schemer without endangering Rita and Mitzi?

In the strange case of alleged Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford, a new bit player has emerged.

Mr Bellamy, in his turn, conducted himself towards the schemer with much cordiality and kindness.

She felt herself a schemer, an intriguer, which she was not.

Then as the schemer remained silent he demanded, frowning darkly, "What's Loralindy Byars got ter do with it?"

About the time the above conversation took place another "schemer" arrived, and was located a few beds from me.

Dan Coughlin, the schemer and originator, had put O'Sullivan into a notion of doing something that he had never thought of before.