Word: dishonestly
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...vote of confidence for its impartial treatment of blacks and whites, local law-enforcement authorities are regarded as antiblack. Only 20% believe that many local police apply the law equally; 62% feel the cops are against blacks. By a 73%-to-12% margin, blacks believe local police are dishonest; by a similar 67% to 18%, they feel police are "more interested in cracking black heads than in stopping crime." Blacks have scarcely more faith in the courts. A 62%-to-21% majority felt that the Supreme Court applied the law equally, but a 55%-to-23% majority feel that state...
...willing to join Thieu's regime. Nonetheless, Thieu has made major efforts in his two years in office to tighten up his administration. He has either fired or reassigned every one of his nation's 44 provincial chiefs in an effort to sideline the incompetent or dishonest. While his motive is also to entrench his own men in these vital posts, observers agree that the caliber of his appointees has been an improvement. He is now embarked on a new cycle of hirings and firings that promises to bring a drastic overhaul of South Viet...
...this were all there is to Fuller's intentions, Shock Corridor would be quite a dishonest movie. Insanity is too serious a situation to hang social criticism upon; the human realities it involves require a concern with personal experience, with the roots of neurosis and schizophrenia. At first Fuller seems to ignore those roots; his direct dialogue and shooting style seem typical of B- picture sensationalism. But the simplicity of his dramatic and visual approach does not bar a truthful and deep treatment of his subject, however much it initially seems to lack subtlety...
SHEPPARD: You're just asking us to be dishonest...
...study of UFO's, Grinspoon said, generated an "inordinate amount of affective heat in which mature scientists accused each other of publicity-seeking, deceiving the public, stealing documents, and in other ways being dishonest. "It was not even possible to organize this panel without arousing considerable passion," he pointed...