Word: dupee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of waging war solely at the City Council level, real estate interests decided to sponsor Proposition 1-2-3. By shifting the focus away from rent control, the industry hoped to dupe large numbers of Cambridge residents. And by turning the debate city-wide, landlords planned on capitalizing on its one advantage--access to money for a large-scale campaign...
...going to be thrown out--and I think there's every reason to believe that he probably will--then if you made all kinds of accommodations on the assumption that there is a brand new world order, you could find yourself embarrassed, having to backtrack, being called a dupe and also involving yourself in some things that would be much more costly if you have to try to gear up again after what did take place," Goldman says...
James Sherwin, vice chairman of GAF, is a chess master who delights in plotting diversions to fool his opponents. Now Sherwin, 54, stands accused of < using such tactics to dupe investors. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted Sherwin and GAF, a New Jersey-based chemical and building- products manufacturer, on criminal fraud and conspiracy charges for allegedly manipulating the price of Union Carbide stock. GAF and Sherwin are the latest target of investigations growing out of the Ivan Boesky insider- trading probe...
...flight crew contacted the ground, and a plan was worked out to dupe the hijackers into thinking they were landing in Finland...
...other line now with that Bozo Pulier. HA HA! What a moron he is! Hey, let's say bad things about him while he waits, the unwitting dupe...