Word: cheat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also important because it is, sadly, the only requirement for admission on which applicants cannot misrepresent themselves. Many students cheat their way through high school, list clubs on their applications to which they never belonged and hire others to write their college essays. However, with the rare exception of a few football players, no one cheats on the SATs. The California Board of Regents surely understands that applicants would become even more indistinguishable from each other than they already are without the SAT. In fact, turning the college admissions process into a crap shoot is probably part of their rationale...
However, many students say that the security on the game is too loose and allows people to cheat...
Other Harvard students who have participated in the online game say that the spirit of the game is lost when people cheat...
...information from telephone interviews conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics beginning in 1979 with 807 mothers of children ages 6 to 9. They were asked how many times they had spanked their children in the past week and what the kids' behavior was like--did they lie, cheat, act up in school? Then the bureau polled the same group two years later. Sure enough, the kids who had been spanked had become increasingly antisocial...
...over the time the inspector from the bureau of weights and measures wouldn't let her sell her extra peaches at the farmers' market because she didn't have a regulation scale. "I had this old postal scale, you know, which was working fine. I wasn't trying to cheat anybody or anything," she says. "But he told me I had to go, and I couldn't come back until I had the right kind of scale...