Word: cons
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...Coop. Use all that money you're hoarding from us. Buy yourself a con-science and remember the meaning of the word 'cooperative...
...Olivier family made the trip from Groton, Conn., to hear the con- cert. Paul, 11, says he especially likes the instrumental parts of the performance, which include organ and handbells...
...writes in his supple and altogether splendid new biography, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Little, Brown; 560 pages; $24.95), for a boy who was "wary, watchful, shy almost to the point of reclusiveness," such a challenge to a teacher was a radical move, like a con calling out the warden or a parishioner talking back to the preacher...
...Swede in The Killers (1946). Immediately viewers could spot a gritty urban charm, brooding good looks, a handsome physique. He made the most of this charisma in The Crimson Pirate, an ebullient homage to Douglas Fairbanks that drew on Lancaster's own acrobatic skills, and later as the consummate con man in both Elmer Gantry (for which he won an Oscar in 1961) and The Rainmaker. Before hitting it big at 33, Lancaster had been a salesman too, and these performances suggested that here was a man who could peddle any dream to anybody...
Cuomo has focused on the tax cut's vagueness, calling it a "con job" and a "political fantasy." But without waiting for details, many voters have been far more critical of Cuomo's own, more modest $1.6 billion cut, seen as cynical from a man who could have proposed it long before the election (much like his last-minute scheme to lower state electricity rates by buying the huge Lilco utility). Says Lee Miringoff of Marist College, one of many pollsters who have chronicled a Pataki lead of about 44% to 40%: "Cuomo has a problem: he's running...