Word: dishonestly
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...lawmakers who replied agree that press coverage of state legislatures is either "excellent" (33.7%) or "good" (43.2%), almost a third of them think that newspaper stories on their activities are "slanted." Only 1.8% of the lawmakers polled think the majority of reporters covering their sessions are "dishonest." The most frequent criticisms...
...Handsome, intelligent, ardent." Da Ponte was also totally irreligious, unscrupulous and dishonest. Of the three Venetian rules-"A little Mass in the morning, a little gamble in the afternoon, and a little lady in the evening"-he paid lip service to the first, indulged rarely in the second, concentrated wholeheartedly on the third. While priest of San Luca in Venice, he took as his mistress Angioletta Bellaudi, a married woman who had been little better than a prostitute since the age of ten. Their first child barely missed being born on a sidewalk, with Father da Ponte probably acting...
...branched into iron and gold mines, newspapers and film companies (Greta Garbo got her first job as an extra in a Kreuger-financed film). Up to this time, Kreuger was an aggressive industrialist, but not the dishonest manipulator he later became. Yet he was in the grip of a grandiose passion-to make and sell every match in the world. He had always thought of himself as a superman, and in 1922 he had a superidea. He would personally shore up the tottering, post-World War I governments of Europe with loans, in return for match monopolies...
...economy. In an effort to counteract inflation with increased productivity, the government decreed, on Christmas Day, that workers would no longer enjoy the state-assured job security that was one of the few blessings they had enjoyed under Franco. Henceforth, businessmen would be free to fire superfluous, incompetent or dishonest workers...
Cecil B. deMille's motion picture The Ten Commandments is disgusting. It is disgusting not so much because it is-mostly-bad drama, nor even because it serves as one of the decade's most elaborate monuments to the union between God and Mammon, but because it is dishonest and almost immoral. After Mr. de Mille and his publicity men have swathed the picture in clouds of religious ballyhoo by such stunts as the incredible full-page ad in the New York Times citing the laudatory comments of a number of religious leaders, he reneges and will not have...