Word: dishonestly
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While merchants are stepping up their precautions against dishonest customers, one of their biggest concerns is the rate at which their own employees are doing the lifting. The Commerce Department asserts that at least half of inventory loss is due to theft by employees. As a result, more and more companies are making job applicants take lie detector tests or written "honesty tests." A sample question: "Do you think a person should be fired if he cheats a company out of money several times each month on his expense account?" One Chicago firm of polygraph examiners, John E. Reid...
...procedure for shifting the camera and focusing it on the correspondent to repeat the principal questions, plus a gamut of absorbed and skeptical poses, all of this to be spliced into the interview to add variety and facilitate editing. Paley was fascinated. 'But isn't it basically dishonest?' he asked finally...
...showfolk, and has now placed an ad in the London Times calling for formation of a writers' "fighting unit" to combat unfriendly reviewers. The group will be a "British playwrights' Mafia," according to Osborne, who penned a playlet describing their imaginary first meeting. "Critics are a dissembling, dishonest, contemptible race of men," says the group's godfather-played by Osborne, naturally. "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs...
...illegal is not the critical question. Common sense tells most of the nation that Lance's actions are so far from the norm as to be bizarre. Thus as Carter and his people have argued Lance's case, they have painted themselves to be either slightly dishonest or grossly uncomprehending. In either environment trust wilts...
...billion a year on dental care "without the foggiest notion" of what their dentists are doing for them, and estimates that some 6 million people lose perfectly salvageable teeth each year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest or both." As an antidote to such outrages, the book urges consumers to drill their dentists on basic subjects like costs, procedures and alternatives before submitting to anything more drastic than a tooth cleaning...