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...opening press conference, Thatcher acknowledged that the high level of joblessness was her "most intractable" problem. She insisted that the "answer is not bogus social contracts and government overspending," but a resolve "to keep inflation down and offer real incentive for private enterprise." According to most public opinion polls, voters blame unemployment more on the worldwide recesssion than on the Thatcher government's fiscal policies...
...vindicated were Marie Bernard and Hitler Historian Werner Maser, both of whom looked at diary photocopies and dismissed them as not being in Hitler's hand. Hitler Biographer Joachim Fest and Stuttgart University Historian Eberhard Jäckel both spotted the alleged diaries as probably part of a cache of bogus Hitler materials they had been offered four years...
...like Diana Ross and Sugar Ray Leonard are perceived as having little connection with the race relations issue outside of the fact that they are Black, and because they have been the Foundation's most widely received guests, their visits lend credence to popular conceptions of the Foundation as bogus, or at least less than serious...
Prompted by student concerns that courses taken under a "bogus" professor might diversely affect their academic records, two Pennsylvania state colleges have formed faculty committees to address the problems raised by the fraud, officials of the colleges said yesterday...
...forget that the Germans, who used to cut off the hands of local villagers, only controlled the territory for 50 years. After their defeat in World War I, they left not only a legacy of maiming, but the illegitimate name of South-West Africa as well. This bogus conflict over nomenclature would be as if the Germans had changed the name of France to "Southwest-Germany" after World War II; the French would still call their land France, and it is doubtful that Ms. Schwartz or anyone else would dispute the validity of their claim...