Word: dishonestly
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...many cases, defendants are charged with purchasing stamps at a discount, whether from counterfeiters or suppliers with access to stockpiles at state-run issuing offices, then using them to buy just about anything but food. In the larger scams, dealers sell thousands of dollars worth of coupons directly to dishonest food-store owners, who act as food-stamp fences and pay 500 on the dollar before redeeming them for full value at the bank. But there is also a smaller scale, mom-and-pop black market. Some sell their coupons for cash (as little as 100 on the dollar...
...protest the manner in which the FBI is being brought to task regarding Abscam. If Harrison Williams had refused the bribe, that would have ended the matter for him. I say the FBI did good work. I hope it will continue to uncover dishonest individuals in our Government...
...school has even had to form a special committee to remind doctors of their responsibilities. The Med School must thus put both its moral and institutional force behind its words. In the future, the school must immediately sever all its ties with doctors who write such misleading or morally dishonest letters of recommendation. The threat that a doctor caught in a serious error of omission, would have his ties instantly and automatically cut would almost certainly insure greater care...
Many on the faculty give that argument low marks. The new plan, argues Professor Charles Fried, "attempts to confer the benefits of membership in a meritocratic organization while being dishonest about the attainment of merit." Other critics fret that come hiring time, Review membership will be a devalued credential. Perhaps. But many firms have their own affirmative action goals, and few will pass up a minority student from the Review simply because he may have had a B + average rather than...
...credit, Jordan did urge a return to the student activism of the 1960s, a time when students more readily undertook tasks that concerned the problems of the poor. But his deficient and dishonest analysis in addition to the example he himself sets by joining a law firm whose priorities presumably do not include the addressing of the problems of the Black poor surely must make us suspicious of his leadership...