Word: duped
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TIME: How? Moussa: Israeli policy is to dupe Palestinians, Arabs and the world by saying, "We want peace," but then they build [Israeli] settlements, hit the Palestinians, use F-16 war jets, use Apache helicopters. And no powerful country intervenes. A continuation of the same policy creates a lot of bad blood, anger, frustration. It is in the interest of nobody, of no country, of no diplomacy, that such a situation continues. Now is the time for a reassessment of American policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict...
...Tweeds' brother Jeb, busted for alcohol a few years later, was permitted to stay on. Go figure.) Bannon may not have left Andover with a diploma, but he didn't leave empty handed: he had his ID. Unbowed by his first run-in with authority, he set out to dupe barkeeps across the country...
Watchdogs barked instantly. "There are so many ways of indirectly compensating analysts for bringing in deals that this is a toothless gesture," says Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Indeed, the guidelines won't change much--and thus threaten to dupe the next generation of investors, led to believe that analysts will look out for them...
Myth number three: The New Economy was all a sham, a Ponzi scheme designed to dupe the average American. This myth is a little bit more complex. Some pundits, so naive they should never have been given a bully pulpit, have pointed to the recent slowdown as proof that the New Economy was a ruse. They point to the equally naive proponents of all the New Economy hype who promised an end to the business cycle, growth and prosperity forever and a stock market that never went down...
...intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love with chocolate milk and trips to Disney World. To the relatives and their vocal, anti-Castro, Cuban-American supporters, Juan Miguel was a dupe or worse who sought his son's return to hell. The father talked about strafing his adversaries with a rifle. The relatives dared the government to take Elian by force. Finally it came to that: a predawn raid that produced dueling images--a terrified Elian cornered in a closet...