Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tourism, are down 40 to 60% below last year's total of $400 million, and reserves have dropped from more than $102 million in November to less than $38 million. Wealthy Jamaicans have illicitly exported perhaps $200 million abroad; some of the currency has been smuggled out in fake cigarettes, fortune cookies and pork carcasses. Says one member of an intelligence force trying to halt the financial outflow: "It has replaced the smuggling of ganja (marijuana) to Grand Cayman, Miami and Canada...
...Fenway bleachers run at twice that much. But you're almost certain to spend and possibly gain a lot more than that--without putting money on it, there just isn't that mush aesthetic interest in watching baying 70 lb. beasts barking, gasping and snapping after a tiny fake rabbit ten yards ahead of them on the track, attached to some weird automatic device...
...knuckleball comedy The Bad News Bears does not play all its scenes for laughs. In one gritty confrontation, a coach stomps out to the mound and strikes a twelve-year-old to the ground. The moment seems pure fake-believe; in fact it is a Little League echo of Major propensities. Since the start of this year's baseball season, aggression has been the order...
Some say big time wrestling is fake, but as any half serious student of the sport can tell you, it is highly scientific. Many holds, such as Tarzan Tyler's atomic skullcrusher and the Mongolian Stompers' "claw", rely on the findings of the likes of Einstein. Others, such as George The Animal Steel's heart stopper, could not be applied without an intimate knowledge of biology. Although this is a little known fact, many former astronauts--who are among the smartest and most scientific men in America--are now professional wrestlers under assumed names...
...confidentiality, does not usually report attempted suicides to the police, which tends to make the statistics understate the true number of suicide attempts. At the same time, the figures may be inflated by the Police Department's practise of retaining for statistical purposes even those suicide calls later proved fake...