Word: dishonestly
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...present leadership structure remains, it will require a series of competent presidents willing to put in the requisite long hours. In the past, HSA has had a wide spectrum of presidents, from honest competent hard workers to dishonest operators taking a year-long free ride...
...campaign on candor and openness, angled and maneuvered, his judgment open to question. His brilliant young staff, which had brought off a modern political miracle in delivering him the nomination, proved to have stumbled badly in processing Eagleton's selection. Eagleton emerged as either naive or overambitious and dishonest in not telling McGovern about his past illness. Yet there was considerable sympathy for him as he rode out the incredible week with reasonably good humor and grace. It was, after all, not easy to be brought from relative obscurity to the relative glory of a vice-presidential candidacy, only...
Both play and film are calculated pieces of commercialism. Writer Leonard Gershe is a salesman who works the territory of dishonest daydreams. He creates a subordinate character called Ralph, a scruffy, loud-mouthed director of experimental plays who sneers at the "tight-assed matrons" in suburbia who patronize the theater. He talks a lot about nudity on stage, about the need for the theater to deal with subjects like dope, and he is made to look the fool. If Gershe's idea of honesty is Butterflies Are Free, it is Ralph who deserves our support...
...present leadership structure remains, it will require a series of competent presidents willing to put in the requisite long hours. In the past, HSA has had a wide spectrum of presidents, from honest competent hard workers to dishonest operators taking a year-long free ride...
...were passed last year, I.O.S. officers thought that the company could bypass them by moving its sales office to London, administering clients' accounts from Amsterdam and keeping only executive offices in Geneva. That plan was shattered in November, when the Swiss arrested three I.O.S. officers on charges of "dishonest business practices" and held them in jail for one night before releasing them on bail. Among the trio was New Jersey Entrepreneur Robert Vesco, 36-year-old chairman of an electronics firm called International Controls Corp., who wrested control of I.O.S. from Cornfeld's group...