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Married executives who travel a lot have ample opportunities to cheat on a spouse. But if they want to sneak off with a paramour and can't find a convention to attend, they can call an alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Oct. 29, 2001 | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...course, up until this year she shared an assumption described by school psychologist Alan Marcus. "That a deaf person would kill another deaf person," says Marcus, "is a foreign idea. Fight with. Argue with. Cheat on. Steal from. Embezzle, maybe. But not kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder In A Silent Place | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Welch also defended certain practices that he has instituted at GE-including making public examples of those who cheat the company and consistently firing under-performers...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Grads Grill G.E. Chief | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...smart-toy manufacturers guarantee in writing, or on TV commercials, that the smart toys are as smart, or even smarter, than a human child. However, smart toys will not be allowed to take school tests for children, though they may sit next to them if they promise not to cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Proposed United Nations Treaty on Human to Smart Object Interrelations | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: By An ANONYMOUS Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

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