Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After all, Harvard students already know a little bit about deception. Their resumes, padded with bogus activities and acheivements, testify to their ability and willingness to decieve. Students who choose to steal should plan elaborate crimes. Then, we would all be entertained by protracted campus mysteries until the greedy whizkids are caught and thrown into the slammer. David W. Brown
...most divisive 'ism' in the English language required no linguistic acrobatics, only a careful scrutiny of the historical record. As theorists have long since suggested, the elevation of whiteness above blackness in America's northern cities originated in economic greed, developed into wage competition, and then sustained itself with bogus 'race' theories only after black degradation was already a fait accompli...
...hour-long appearance before a packed cafeteria at Oyster River High School, Forbes made repeated jabs at the "fearmongers in Washington"--including rival candidate U.S. Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.)--whose ads he criticized as "full of bogus misinformation...
...hope that Sen. Dole's camp will apologize...for this bogus misinformation," Forbes said. "Instead of costing the people of New Hampshire money, it saves you money...
...Billig would not be diverted from her search for Amy. When police interest waned and community donations dried up, she and Ned financed their own hunt by closing their art gallery, selling their Bentley and moving with their son into a smaller house. They tracked bogus leads to Oklahoma and Nevada, visited the Seattle headquarters of a motorcycle gang rumored to have snatched Amy, persuaded Texas officials to exhume an unidentified body and got Unsolved Mysteries to air a TV segment on the case in 1992. After Ned died of lung cancer two years ago, Billig, who also suffered from...