Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formed The Grape Coalition to encourage the reinstatement of grapes at Harvard. The Coalition released an impassioned mission statement, turning to capital letters to make their points hit home (e.g. "GRAPES ARE TASTY"). A typically fervent debate took over the U.C. e-mail list, and unknown pranksters circulated a bogus poster threatening to toss HDS dietitian Shirley Hung into a crossfire with political pundit and baseball analyst George Will...
Hunter shrugs off all the charges. Too many plea bargains? Just "locker-room talk" from cops. Closeness to Ramsey lawyers? "A bogus issue," he says. (Boulder lawyer Tom Lamm agrees that "Alex doesn't cross over that line to do anything that would suggest collusion.") The D.A. insists he is not being slow, just deliberate. Says Hunter: "This case is not in a posture for presentation" to a judge or jury. The obvious, though unspoken message: for all their leaking of dark suspicions about the Ramseys, the police have not shown Hunter enough hard evidence to support an arrest...
...rival for control of Harrods--began investigating the family. Its report, published in 1990, concluded that the brothers did not hail, as they had claimed, from "an old Egyptian family" with a 100-year history of landownership and shipbuilding. "The image created...of their wealthy Egyptian ancestry was completely bogus," the report said. The government further concluded that the money al Fayed used to purchase Harrods could not have come from an inherited fortune, as he claimed, but was probably put up for al Fayed by his associate, the Sultan of Brunei, the world's wealthiest...
...their fourth local newspaper ad appealing for help from the public. The ad noted that the killer "appears to be obsessed with techno-crime movies and phrases from them" and included quotes from Ransom, Dirty Harry and Speed that the family says are similar to ones in the bogus ransom note...
...brochures for the minivans are bogus at first glance. Here is a Windstar--or is it a Previa? a Caravan?--parked in the circular drive of an Alpine castle, glistening after a spring shower. The image is idiotic: American marketing at its most cynical. But Husband lingers over the sport-utility brochures. The pages are heavy and slick, almost sensuous, like the leaves of some edible exotic plant. And the pictures! They are familiar to him from the thousands of commercials he saw during the N.B.A. finals. The Jeep Cherokee roars up the perilous incline of a desert mountain. Fearlessly...