Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Already stunned by the success of allied air raids on war's first day, oil traders were jolted anew when they heard the bogus news that Saddam had been toppled by his officers. The rumor helped send the price of U.S. crude down more than $2 per bbl., capping a one-week fall...
...Harvard Foundation deeply regret this unfortunate incident and would like to assure our students, faculty and dining hall staff that we had nothing to do with the planning or distribution of the condoms and bogus programs. We would also like to express our sincere sympathy to Dunster House for any embarrassment or displeasure this act may have cause, and we urge restraint of judgment and action on the part of the Black students and staff who feel that this incident, albeit racially insensitive, was racially motivated...
Williams says the lessons of his course have many important applications in a world where people often want to believe the fantastic findings of pseudo-scientists. There has been a long history of bogus findings in archaeology, Williams says, adding that he wants to expose the impostors for their true shallowness and focus students on the real thing...
...bottle, oenophiles who purchase the world-famous Chardonnay expect to enjoy one of the world's great wines. Now it seems that some of them would have been better off with a bottle of Chateau Toledo. Attracted by the bouquet of easy profit, wine counterfeiters have produced bogus bottles of DRC Montrachet, which have turned up in California and as far away as Tokyo...
...Jesse Helms' moral outrage that blacks should be getting rich off an outrageous giveaway from the Federal Government is oddly narrow. After all, long before it adopted minority preferences, the FCC was handing out valuable licenses practically for free on other, equally bogus criteria. After more than a half-century of this foolishness, many of America's largest fortunes derive from ownership of broadcasting franchises. Helms himself has made the odd nickel this way. In just the past few years, the awarding of cellular- telephone franchises has created a whole new category of white male multimillionaires. Reformers have long argued...