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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MORALLY CHALLENGED: Mike Milken, John Gotti, Manuel Noriega, Leona Helmsley and every other soul who finds thievery and deceit irresistible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word Watch: Apr 20, 1992 | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...they succeed, they will have proved only that they are masters of deceit. And they will still have failed to prove that their policies, embodied without success in American government for the past six decades, can do anything to help America...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Why Everyone's Wrong... | 4/18/1992 | See Source »

Subversion, of course, requires different techniques for different substratum of the enemy's ranks. With liquor store clerks and bouncers, for example, most underage drinkers try the friendly approach. With police, students use pure deceit--either that or they run like hell...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: FAKING IT IN HARVARD SQUARE | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...Carefully draw a line across the three to make a zero with pencil, and then iron it back together between two shirts," says the student, who swears by his recipe for deceit...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: FAKING IT IN HARVARD SQUARE | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

...sainted JFK was a good guy and that the Vietnam war was bad, bad, bad. How could the former be even partially accountable for the latter? To resolve that unseemly dissonance, Stone indulges in what is at best a ridiculous oversimplification of some very complicated politics, and at worst deceit...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Stoned: JFK's Revision of the '60s | 1/15/1992 | See Source »

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