Word: dishonestly
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...school of $6,000,000, forcing two insurance companies into receivership and causing the first bank failure in the history of Houston. Testifying under a federal grant of immunity, he named Wilson as one of the people involved in creating his financial empire. Whether Wilson's actions were dishonest-or merely unwise-they made his resignation inevitable...
...Association, that no one notices it-no one, that is, except the short man himself. To Sociologist Feldman of Case Western Reserve University, that point is well illustrated by the language. Instead of the neutral "What is your height?", the question is always the invidious "How tall are you?" Dishonest cashiers shortchange customers, and people who lack foresight are shortsighted...
Explains Skinner: "One of the most powerful schedules, the variable-ratio schedule, is characteristic of all gambling systems. The gambler cannot be sure the next play will win, but a certain mean ratio of plays to wins is maintained. This is the way a dishonest gambler hooks his victim. At first the victim is permitted to win fairly often. Eventually he continues to play when he is not winning at all. With this technique, it is possible to create a pathological gambler out of a simple bird like a pigeon...
...Anger," Dr. Bach concludes, "cannot be dishonest"-the security-blanket generalization that all the anger buffs cling to, and one as perilously misleading as "in vino veritas." Upon Bach's misapprehension, America's newest industry, group therapy, founders. Venting hostility is so simplistically scripted as the "Moment of Truth" that a whole cult of anger fakers has developed, not unlike the faith fakers who also deceived themselves into salvation at other and earlier camp meetings...
...Toward the end of the trial a newly promoted general named Nguyen Cao Ky said indignantly: "As I listen to all of the charges against [some of the lower-ranking] generals-dirty, sleeping with the wives of the soldiers, corrupt, disloyal, dishonest-I think we should get rid of them." The performance reflects so favorably on Ky. who is also a candidate for the presidency, that some cynics have suggested he might have had a hand in leaking the documents...