Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Feldstein, here's freedom from policy gripes; And a year at the podium for Richard E. Pipes. (A scholarly hint to young Dan the Pipette: Just follow your father; you'll get tenure yet.) For Ed Meese, to whose mind hunger's only a cheat, Some clam chowder popcorn's a holiday treat. Besides, just in case the stuff proves deleterious, We'll toss in some ice cream--the new Gelateria's. And, though her green birthplace his favorite is not, Here's a Cabbage Patch Doll for our friend Jimmy Watt...
Perhaps one class president took the exam on which a student before the committee allegedly cheated. Maybe a committee member took that same class a year or two ago and can't understand how anyone could find it necessary to cheat in such an easy course. Worse yet, the committee membership rotates. No sooner does a member familiarize himself with procedures, rules and case histories than he finds himself back on the prowl in the exam room...
...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are more cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you've 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...
...deals must be struck with what Reagan has called an "evil empire," a nation that reserves "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat," then the U.S. must insist on the most intrusive, comprehensive inspection measures to assure that the Soviets are not violating any new agreement by hiding weapons that are supposed to be limited...
...Germany too an elaborate welfare system that can take up to 60% of an average worker's pay tempts many to cheat. Says a Finance Ministry official: "The imagination of the German taxpayer knows no bounds." One fertile field involves the 2 million foreign workers, who are often paid in cash for construction jobs. All told, the "shadow economy" costs the authorities an estimated $10 billion in unpaid taxes, but the less imaginative Germans dutifully pay far more: $156 billion...