Word: dishonestly
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...admit that he could not hold the Big Dig to budget, Kerasiotes chose to hide the overruns in the vain hope that he could find some way to bring the project to the black. Eventually he became desperate in his attempts to hold onto his job and turned to dishonest financial reporting...
...classic cops-and-robbers tale, but with a film-noir twist. Ovando was railroaded by the police, who had planted a gun to get the conviction. But no one believed Ovando until a dishonest cop, Rafael Perez, talked. Faced with 14 years in prison for stealing cocaine from a police lockup, Perez opted to bargain for a lighter sentence by delivering up his fellow officers. That was five months ago, and Perez has hardly stopped talking since. He has filled 2,000 transcript pages with accounts of cops faking evidence, testifying against innocent people and generally acting like criminals themselves...
...greatest fear was that the Olympics would lose the luster and credibility that draws millions of viewers worldwide every four years. If corporations refused to sponsor the games for fear of associating themselves with a dishonest competition, the games might have become unprofitable, endangering the viability of these spectacular athletic exhibitions...
Unlike Bill Bradley, I'm not prepared to call the man dishonest or morph him into Nixon. But at times, when Gore descends to the politics he disdains, he can't find the level beneath which he will not sink. At the 1996 convention he described how he sat at the deathbed of his younger sister in 1984 as she succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer, and how he vowed to fight tobacco until he drew "his last breath." Problem with that was he had made a 1988 speech to North Carolina farmers in which he extolled the joys...
...fight in New York by helping McCain get on the ballot there. Gay political leaders didn't make an issue of it. Kevin Ivers, press spokesman for the gay Log Cabin Republicans, who favor McCain, said, "Any gay who jumps up and down about what McCain said is being dishonest and hypocritical." Even from the other side, the response was muted. David Smith, communications director of the Human Rights Campaign and no supporter of the Arizona Senator, said, "It's always risky to stereotype, but McCain's comments are no big deal. Gays won't be picketing the Straight Talk...