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...test is completely bogus. With a little bit of studying anyone can do well on it," said Andrew B. Clubok '90, one of there seniors in a Winthrop House rooming group who got a perfect score. "It is a poor measure of what it's supposed to test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Test Scores Show More 48s | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

Granted, these surveys could be completely bogus. Perhaps the Indy staff interviewed only social misfits. Or perhaps they just interviewed one another...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Romance at Harvard? Yeah, Right. | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...must be to get a really big government mad at you -- like the U.S. Government, in the person of former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. That's what money manager James Sutton ("Jay") Regan, 47, seems to have done. His firm, Princeton/Newport Partners, was charged with making a series of bogus trades in 1984 and '85 to claim tax losses. The trades were shams, argued the Government, because though Princeton/Newport really did sell securities in which it really did have losses, the firm didn't really sell them because it had an unwritten deal to buy them back later at about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Too Much Firepower to Fit the Crime? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Until the early 1980s, the flow of undocumented ivory into Japan went virtually unchecked. The country was awash in bogus documents used to launder ivory smuggled out of Africa. International protests grew, and Japan's traders began to realize that the extinction of the elephant would eventually put them out of business. Since 1985 Japan has complied with CITES rules and earned high marks from some conservationists. Its imports fell from 475 tons a year in 1983 and 1984 to 106 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Firmly controlling the council and its agenda, Lee made sure that the office of chair was never considered a "bogus position." Even when Lee's control of the council was not readily apparent through the council's accomplishments, it often showed through in the student body's perception of his tenure as chair...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Leaving a Mark on Desks, Council | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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