Word: dishonestly
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...deal with all the many issues that confront this generation--too many for one play. There are too many hands, too many cooks hovering over this soup. The nightmare of potential nuclear bolocaust is more than any one person or any one theater collective can tackle, and it is dishonest to pretend otherwise. TheaterWork's Out Out is much more brilliant and provocative when it focuses on the big picture's tiny details--when it brings to the surface those horrifying moments which are the truth of life in wartime...
Every one of us, straight or gay, came from a union of male and female. To pretend that the basis for marriage or the family structure is anything but that is intellectually dishonest. We should not allow ourselves to be intimidated into passing legislation to accommodate these self-styled martyrs and misfits...
...their plastic has not been stolen, they have been victims of a fraud. Lately thieves have begun getting account information by pilfering the carbon paper that is found between the pages of individual charge slips, either by combing through the trash behind elegant shops and restaurants or colluding with dishonest employees working inside. Once the account information is in hand, it is no trick to order merchandise over the phone, since this requires the presentation of neither an actual card nor a valid signature. One band of California criminals stole $250,000 in a carbon-paper caper last year, according...
Some thieves go to the extra effort of counterfeiting credit cards and embossing the stolen information onto them. A few of these are sold on the street at prices ranging between $100 and $300. More often they are used by the counterfeiters in cahoots with a dishonest merchant, who rings up phony charges that in the end are paid by the the card company. In this fashion, thieves run little risk of getting caught, at least for a while...
Industrial espionage can be tamed a bit, but it will probably never be entirely subdued. Competition will always lead some companies or countries to try it, and a few dishonest employees will undoubtedly always be found. But both the Government and a growing number of firms now seem determined to keep spying to a minimum...