Word: dishonestly
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...would be pointless merely to add our voice to the growing pile of condemnations of the paper thieves. What is most concerning about the Brown debacle is not the theft or its intellectually dishonest defenders, but rather the assumption, equally shared by the Third World coalition and many of its detractors, that newspapers are ideological monoliths--that the decision to accept an ad or revise a story can be motivated only by political biases and not by honest deliberation on journalistic principles. After all, the Daily Herald printed the advertisement even though it has taken no position on reparations...
...wildlife. We find it difficult to believe that large-scale industrial drilling in a pristine wilderness will be innocuous. More importantly, there is no pressing need to drill the refuge--we are by no means clutching to our last barrel of oil, despite Bush's ridiculous and intellectually dishonest references to the California energy crisis. The wildlife refuge would provide too little oil to justify its despoilation...
...Before Eminem came on to rap with Elton John, a grave man dressed like an adult - the Grammys' ambassador to Bennett-Leiberman Nation - delivered a dishonest sermonette filled with those "sure-it's-ugly-but-we-ignore-the-cry-of-the-ghetto (er, make that, of suburban white sociopaths)-at-our-peril" notes that are spoken to endow venality with social significance...
...could well imagine that the search committee didn't reveal all to the Overseers at that time," he said. "I don't think the Overseers would consider that to be dishonest...
...idea was one episode a month, pay as you go...and pay by the honor system. My inspiration was the newspaper vendors in New York City during the first half of the century. Many of those hired for the job were blind, because the distribs felt that even slightly dishonest people wouldn't steal from a blind newsboy. My experiment has far from run its course, but the first phase of it concludes later this month, when Part 6 of The Plant--by far the longest--goes up, this time for free...