Word: bogus
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...languishing nude; a study by Isabel Bishop of "Two Girls," young women really, the one in the red hat looking concerned toward the one in the black hat, who is holding a letter, perhaps conveying bad news. The room is a trove of bric-a-brac: a bogus Oscar inscribed to "Ed Koch, Mayor for Life"; a trophy from the Friars Club; sheet music of an old song called "How'm I Doin'?" (Koch seems curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom...
Media executives are getting nervous. ABC's New York studio fired five staff members, accusing them of using bogus questions on viewer-participation programs-earlier, an unlikely punishment for such an offense. It is hard enough as it is for a newspaper reader or television watcher to tell fact from fiction. On television, where the ability to create plausible fiction has run low, writers of "docudramas" put words never spoken by Churchill or Truman into their mouths. The confusion is compounded when the public is assured it is getting authentic words mouthed by actors...
Allied Bank thus joins a growing list of U.S. banks that have been victimized by unscrupulous employees. Earlier this year, California's Wells Fargo Bank was bilked out of some $21 million in a scam involving bogus transfers between branch offices, and last week reports surfaced of a $20 million loan fraud scheme at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City...
...Bank Attorney Joseph H. Peck Jr. reluctantly confirmed, Wiggins' ploy was to sell bogus bankers' acceptances to unwitting buyers in New York. He was able to do this undetected because, in his capacity as head of international operations at Allied, he had authority to sell acceptances on behalf of the bank itself...
...untucked shirttails fool you, either. One-hundred-per-cent cotton hanging out the back of a sweater did not get there by accident. Anything synthetic there, however, is bogus...