11.   Swensen stood mute behind Stern at several press conferences before he hatched a scheme to have cardboard cutouts made of himself and other agency heads for such occasions.

12.   The scheme was hatched after the Canadian government raised tobacco taxes in an effort to cut smoking.

13.   Howe denied that his wife had hatched this scheme.

14.   The scheme was hatched by Christian Moeller-Nielsen, who owns the plantation where the experiment is under way.

15.   Three years later, investigators say, he hatched a scheme that resulted in what was then the largest pot seizure ever off the Washington coast.