Word: dishonestly
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...Leakey than preserving Africa's heritage for future generations. Asked in 1989 to head Kenya's wildlife department -- which included a disorderly paramilitary force ^ that failed to protect elephants, rhinos and other animals from poachers -- he insisted that the agency be freed from government control. He then fired dishonest employees and raised the low salaries that made officials and troops vulnerable to bribes from poachers. Today morale is up, poaching is down, and bribe taking is nonexistent...
...seemed to me that people were getting caught being dishonest a lot more this year," Bashe says...
Perhaps such mini-fellowships are a good idea; they need to be debated on their merits. It is profoundly dishonest, however, to cloak this subsidy with the mantle of benefiting the students...
...interview with TIME in January, Sheik Omar carefully denied involvement in any violent incident. "What is needed from me is not to make fatwas, but to say the truth," he said. Though his manner is good humored, Sheik Omar grows sharp when railing against the "dishonest" Western media and denouncing the brutal tactics of Egyptian security forces, abuses that are also well documented by human-rights organizations. His harsh interpretations of Muslim scriptures have won the allegiance of many young and disaffected Egyptians...
...exposed excessively to the Clintonic mood, these circuits will not be able to resolve the paradoxes with which they are confronted. Our estimable Vice President's central processor will melt down and his head will explode. And to risk such a national tragedy for the dishonest political gains that the Clintonic mood afford just wouldn't be prudent...