Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were warned by a Government security center last May that a virus lurking in the lab's 450 computers was set to be activated that day, many users stopped work and began feverishly making backup copies of all their disks. The warning of a virus proved to be a hoax, but in such an atmosphere, says Chuck Cole, Livermore's deputy computer- security manager, "a hoax can be as disruptive as the real thing...
Fortas had betrayed his own ideals, and in the process made the myth of Camelot and the Great Society seem a cruel hoax. One could fight for truth and justice and make a pretty good buck while doing it, was the lesson he taught. One could also cozy up to power, find for himself a comfortable niche in the White House power structure and never fear that he would be accountable...
Just who is the liberal minority? A tiny and perverted sliver of the American electorate who support a world government, who believe Jesus Christ was a "moral teacher, a fanatic, or a hoax," and who "protect the criminal" instead of the victims of crime. These enemies of America's traditional values include the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association, Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women...
...liar" by Sharpton. McKinnon was quickly subpoenaed to testify before the special grand jury investigating the case in Poughkeepsie. Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, declared that "if Mr. McKinnon is right, then Attorneys Mason and Maddox and the Rev. Sharpton have been consciously perpetrating a hoax...
...when Brawley's tale proves a mere hoax, it will collapse the careers of Mason, Maddox and Sharpton--all of whom have staked their reputations on Brawley's veracity. And it may also bring down the progress made for Black justice in New York...