Word: deceitful
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...speech in January, China's state television cut away when the president referred to previous American generations that had faced down communism. The line that followed was also edited from television broadcasts and from transcripts on many Chinese news portals: "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist...
...there's another reason for the surge in cases of deceit. Far from simply fueling fraud, there's nothing like a nasty bout of recession to flush swindlers out. By digging into their own operations amid the financial squeeze, firms are unearthing historical deception. In 2008, U.K. courts tried individuals for the fraudulent loss of some $450 million at the public and private organizations affected, according to KPMG, three times the amount in 2007. While some of that increase can be put down to wrongdoing prompted by the financial crisis, ongoing fraud uncovered as a result of the recession also...
...late January afternoon. The Dow was down almost 200 points, and Orman was lounging on the terrace of her San Francisco town house, wearing a leopard-print tunic and cowboy boots. She looked up and popped a grape into her mouth. "This is happening because of the lies and deceit and greed of Wall Street, the mortgage companies, the SEC, the Administration," she said, growing agitated. Her outlook on the economy is practically apocalyptic: Millions more jobs will be lost, the stock market will probably continue to drop, and things won't start to get better until 2015. "Shysters! They...
...Telling Lies.” The book is a melange of Ekman’s own work in the field, and do-it-yourself tips to help the reader become a lie-catcher. It begins with a cursory examination of behavioral, facial, and bodily clues about deceit. For instance, when facial or bodily expressions do not match up with a person’s words, it’s highly likely that said person is lying. Ekman also explains the idea behind “leakage,” a physiognomic cousin of the microexpression, rendered aptly in the examples...
...success of this little movie that could a matter of luck or brains or deceit? Maybe what Slumdog says about its hero applies to the film itself. Maybe it's destiny...