Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poll released Friday found 65 percent believe federal affirmative action programs should be changed rather than eliminated, while 47 percent said that the system has been good for the country. California Governor Pete Wilson, who pressed his fellow UC regents to make the decision, shrugged off as "utterly bogus"claims by critics that he is using the issue to bolster his presidential bid. Reaction from his GOP presidential rivals was mixed: while Sen. Phil Gramm applauded the move, and Sen. Bob Dole said nothing, Sen. Arlen Specter heatedly criticized Wilson for using the word "tribalism" in discussing racial preference programs...
...THAT MUSIC AND CINEMA are responsible for the meltdown of U.S. society is utter nonsense; moreover, this red herring is perpetuated by venal politicians to pre-empt any serious examination of sensitive issues. America is ailing and in denial. Chief among the many ills exacerbating our sick spirit is bogus puritanism. Ill-minded men wed to this pernicious folly inhibit us from ordaining reasonable policies regarding sex, drugs, violent crime, taxes, the military and foreign policy. Tully Atkinson San Clemente, California...
...picture of the late Sinedu Tadesse along with the message, "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story about her," the paper made a grave journalistic error. It did not investigate. And, although it may be true that one never knows if anonymous tips are bogus or legitimate, some of the most exciting and important news stories have depended upon such tips, e.g. those provided by Deep Throat in Watergate...
...four weeks it has been operating, Scott's service has attracted thousands of cutups who have dispatched 18,000 bogus messages to unsuspecting users all over the world. On the same day Hong won her phony prize, other Internet users received celebrity E-mail from the chairman of Microsoft (a handsome job offer), the President of the U.S. (an admonishment to stop reading alt.sex and start studying), supermodel Cindy Crawford (a proposition), the Supreme Being (an invitation to the Second Coming) and Satan (an invitation to eternal damnation...
...murder, extortion, narcotics and gambling -- into the hugely profitable racket of software bootlegging. Police say members of the Wah Ching are using their traditional drug-smuggling routes to ship phony holograms produced in the unregulated factories of China. On April 20, for instance, a Chinese man carrying 29,000 bogus Microsoft holograms was snared by Customs officials as he attempted to enter San Francisco international airport. "The Wah Ching are into everything -- anything that will make money," says San Francisco police Sergeant Richard Moses...