Word: deceits
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...Separatist Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam movement, whom Jackson had repeatedly refused to disavow as a political supporter. In an openly anti-Semitic tirade, Farrakhan called Judaism a "dirty religion" (some listeners heard the phrase as "gutter religion"), accused Israel of "injustice, thievery, lying and deceit," and charged that the U.S. was engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" in its support of Israel...
Charges of "fraud and deceit" hit a reporter and his friends...
Last week the SEC filed a 55-page civil complaint in New York federal court charging that Winans, Brant and three others had engaged in a scheme of "fraud and deceit" by trading on the basis of inside information not available to the public. If found guilty of the SEC charges, they will be forced to pay back the money they made, but they will not face jail sentences. A separate criminal investigation against them is being conducted, however, and that could lead to prison terms...
...Ginny may be symbolic representations, but they are also potent characters in their own right. The student's basic gentleness makes his rage, when it surfaces, all the more terrible to behold. The teacher's harassed decency makes the brisk cheer with which she tries to sell deceit to her self and her students the more poignant...
...press is in the business of selling, and good deeds don't sell. What does sell is gloom and fear and crime and deceit. The press can poison a jury fast. Often, there is a rush to find guilt. Along the way, they deprive defendants of any presumption of innocence. There's a conscious effort to go after anyone big. The only place John De Lorean could get a fair trial would be in a monastery with twelve deaf-mute monks. There's a tendency to overexpose our leaders. Anybody who wants to be a public figure...