Word: bogus
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...principal culprits are Dutchmen who, in two separate operations, are believed to have passed off several million bottles of cheap wine as the product of well-known French vineyards, earning as much as $10 million in the process. American importers have been a favorite target for shipments of bogus Pouilly-Fuissé, a white wine from the Burgundy region that has soared both in popularity and price in the U.S. According to investigators in The Netherlands, Americans drank between 300,000 and 500,000 bottles of the phony-Fuissé during the past two years, usually paying more than...
...Herald reported the names of seven students who it said were on the list. One of the students, senior Jack McConnell, said, "That's bogus, that they say it's for security reasons. It's typical of the university's fear of political issues, of anything different from them...
...Spanish-born career diplomat, said his farewells. Just as he was moving toward his armored Chrysler Imperial limousine, the soccer players pulled automatic weapons from their gym bags and blasted their way through the embassy gates. After a two-hour gun battle with police and bodyguards, the bogus athletes were masters of the compound. One attacker lay dead and at least five other people were wounded, including two policemen...
...salesman, in a follow-up phone call, might then say discreetly, "If you act now, I can squeeze you in on a contract." While most of the contracts have not yet fallen due, investigators allege that brokers in fact do not possess the oil to back up the bogus deals. Eventually, customers would find that the salesmen had either left town or were no longer in business at the time of delivery...
...embargo on grain will come to be known as a grievous error in judgment. Grain will find its way to the U.S.S.R. through bogus buyers and sellers and middlemen...