Word: fakeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...compared with how they would do without it or whether they should be on a different medicine. Take statins, drugs that aim to reduce bad cholesterol. A typical trial might give one group of men a statin for, say, five years and give a second group a placebo, or fake pill...
...used to be all show biz, and now it's just one flower in my flower bed," says the man who wrote himself a $10 million check as a show of confidence when he started his career. "I was very one-track-minded. I'd have to fake what I did for fun if someone asked. 'Well, I like to ride horses.' I said that to an interviewer once. I'll ride horses once or twice a year. If that." He assumes, in fact, that at some point he will retire from the entertainment business, so he can have...
...Crimson scored again on a perfectly executed 2-on-1 by Chu and Vaillancourt, and made it 3-0 late in the first period when Chu capitalized on a power-play chance with her 17th goal of the season. Chu beat Belliveau with a deft fake and buried the puck from the backhand side...
...Wall, the Forbidden City, weird and wonderful new architecture, a slew of museums celebrating China's millennia of culture and history. The list is long. But even the most academically inclined out-of-town visitor invariably ends up asking - somewhat sheepishly - whether I can give them directions to the "Fake Market." There are actually several of these, each a four- or five-story building jammed with stalls selling everything from shoes to toys, handbags, DVD players, watches, pearls, electronics, sports equipment. Almost everything in these establishments bears a famous name brand, often with supporting literature. There are Rossignol ski jackets...
...official promises to take serious steps to protect intellectual property rights and prevent counterfeiting. Greg Shea, who represents a U.S. information technology association, says he has no doubt that the central government is sincere when they tell him that they want to close down the factories that pump out fake software for pennies. "They just can't get the locals to do it. There's too much money being made...