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Word: foisted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a moral standpoint, the deal is clearly indefensible. Developed nations are using their inherent advantage of wealth to foist off a lop-sided deal on people who, through no fault of their own, have no better choice...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: The Enemy is Us | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...opposition, a coalition known as the Democratic Alliance of Civil Opposition and led by lawyer Guillermo Endara, that authorities felt obliged to declare the election null and void. That decision was widely interpreted as an admission by Noriega that given such a lopsided vote, not even he could foist Duque on his country. Vowed Ricardo Arias Calderon, the coalition's candidate for First Vice President: "We will continue to fight by all peaceful means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lead-Pipe Politics | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...their haste to nominate Ginsburg and their rush to get him on the Court--Senate hearing should begin without delay, the president said, criminals are being set free--Administration extremists didn't take the time to see how well they knew the unkown quantity they were trying to foist upon Court and country. There were hints that Ginsburg, a student of the University of Chicago's Richard Posner, was more inclined to law-and-economics than to law-and-order. Former colleagues on the Law School faculty suggested we might be surprised by his liberal views on social issues. Nudge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Just Say Goodbye | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

...system in 1980 by Federal Judge William Wayne Justice. Nonetheless, entrepreneurs keep trying. Hard times in the oil patch have spurred hucksters to offer up abandoned office buildings, foreclosed motels and warehouses to the corrections department as makeshift pens. A few down- and-out Houstonians are even trying to foist off their homes as mini- detention centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prisons: More Rooms for The Big House | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...eternally infuriated by Sports Illustrated. Who gave their editorial board the right to foist their ideals of perfection into a mass-circulated weekly that eventually ends up on the coffee tables of America's impressionable populace? Are we all supposed to look and act like that? I am appalled by their narrow-minded and restrictive vision and perception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pornography | 2/15/1986 | See Source »

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