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Word: bogus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever hated Spam canned meat as much as Netizens detest its contemporary namesake. Unsolicited junk E-mail now accounts for 10% of all Internet traffic and up to 30% of the 26 million daily messages on America Online. Because spammers are such a fast-moving target--using constantly changing bogus return addresses--their stuff is almost impossible to stamp out. But help is on the way. Sendmail Inc., makers of the most popular E-mail-routing software, says its new version has a built-in antispam tool kit that includes a virtually spamproof address verifier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...distinctions or having trouble keeping his stories straight. When he denied having a sexual relationship with Browning, he said she "was mad at me because I'd never been her lover, especially since she thought I was now Gennifer Flowers' lover, and...I told her Gennifer Flowers' story was bogus--it's very hard to prove your innocence in a case like this, but that we'd done it." Just four pages on, however, Clinton admitted his relationship with Flowers hadn't been so innocent. Asked if he had ever had sexual relations with Flowers, Clinton replied, "Yes... Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Kiss But Don't Tell | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...that he is like each of them. Here in our happy democracy everyone's opinion is equally valuable, everyone's question is equally informed, and every crotchet and quirk is equally worthy of the President's time. This is populism of the most romantic sort. And it is thoroughly bogus, a conjurer's trick: the appearance of substance with nothing substantial underneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ye Olde Town Gimmick | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...matter what style is chosen in this instance--boring Bauhaus, bogus Georgian, post-modern melange or glass box--a building of this proposed size can only be enormous. The resulting increase in traffic and parking would be only another intractable problem added to the whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proposed Knafel Center Would Offend Local Character | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...performances. They became a community, with a high sense of purpose and camaraderie. They were well fed, had more than ample sanitary facilities (in fact, we all used the same ones) and were provided with large Jacuzzis for warming up between scenes during water work. Reports of mistreatment are bogus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SETTLING ACCOUNTS | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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