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...business of selling bogus degrees to people seeking to boost their egos, or more likely their job prospects, is growing. The FBI estimates that there are at least 100 diploma mills in the U.S. selling 10,000 to 15,000 phony sheepskins a year. No cracking of books or taking of stiff exams is required. In fact, most of these counterfeit colleges demand little more than a fee for a degree (usually a few hundred dollars for a B.A. and up to $5,000 for a Ph.D.). They advertise their wares in the classified-ad sections of magazines with alluring...
...Bogus billings cost AT&T $70 million in 1982 and $74 million during the first nine months of last year. Such sums are minuscule, however, when compared with the company's revenues (1983: $69.8 billion). AT&T deducts the fraudulent charges from its taxable income as a cost of doing business...
...bogus Bulletin--the first in years--had freshmen laughing, but others were not amused...
...color is a bogus complaint. Most color displays now available are so terrible you can't even do word processing on it," Markoff says. "If I had a choice between the high resolution of the Macintosh and poor color, I'd take the black and white...
Last words are supposed to be a drama of truth-telling, of nothing left to hide, nothing more to lose. Why, then, do they so often have that clunk of the bogus about them? Possibly because the majority of them may have been composed by others - keepers of the flame, hagiologists, busybodies...