Word: fakeness
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...sales reps, to relocate to an otherwise barren trading floor and pretend to buy and sell energy contracts to impress visiting Wall Street analysts. As the analysts trooped through, the Enron employees, who had hurriedly outfitted their new work spaces with family photos and other personal items, conducted fake phone conversations and tried to appear busy. When the tour ended, former CEO Ken Lay reportedly returned to compliment the employees on their performance and explain that it was important that the analysts believe the trading unit was well organized so the company would earn a favorable credit rating...
ARRESTED. NOELLE BUSH, 24, daughter of Florida Governor Jeb Bush; for allegedly impersonating a doctor and calling in a fake prescription for the antianxiety drug Xanax; in Tallahassee...
...possession of counterfeit passports and materials to produce fraudulent credit cards. Deffous argues, though, that any theft, fraud or procurement and distribution of forged passports were a means of generating personal income and not of assisting terrorists. Prosecutors contend they have convincing evidence to the contrary. First, they note, fake passports containing spelling and grammatical errors identical to those belonging to Cherifi were discovered in a December 2000 raid of an al-Qaeda cell in Frankfurt. And telephone numbers for members of that group, who were alleged to have been plotting an attack on Strasbourg's Cathedral and Christmas market...
...have lovely scales and green is the hardest color to wear...but you look dashing,” Parker said, sweet-talking the fake beast...
...grotesque—a dripping tongue hanging out of a window, a girl with beetles for eyes, a line of shadowy people walking under a solitary rain cloud, clocks embedded in the graves in a cemetery—and the Kafkaesque: Indeed, one of Dumala’s fake film “advertisements” proclaims “Miniature Film Studio Presents a Piotr Dumala Film: Franz Kafka.” All of the figures in Dumala’s drawings display a unique, fascinating dynamism and animation, like actors captured in motion within film stills...