Word: hoax
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...place of the G.O.P. measure, the Democrats substituted a diluted rider that requires congressional budget committees to draw up a balanced budget for fiscal 1981 and 1982. But the amendment does not bind Congress to adopt the committees' recommendations. Complained Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole: "This is a hoax...
Henning P. Guttman '82 described the computer printed notices as "official-looking," but said residents began to suspect a hoax when someone who had listed Currier as his top choice received an assingnment to Winthrop...
...think they were really dumb," Charles J. Lowenstein '82, said yesterday. He said one resident took the prank seriously and was very upset until he went to the Freshman Dean's Office and discovered it was a hoax...
...marriage of the year or a crude political hoax? Belgrade was buzzing with rumors last week after stories appeared in the Western press reporting that Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, 86, had married Gertrude Minutic, an opera singer 51 years his junior. According to the unconfirmed reports, which surfaced while Tito was on a "mission of peace to the Middle East," he had taken his fourth bride after divorcing his estranged wife Jovanka, 54. A Yugoslav government spokesman angrily dismissed the stories as a "dirty trick" perpetrated by Tito's political opponents abroad...
...embarrassment at Random House. They rejected the identical Steps manu script nine years after they had published it. In all 14 publishers and 13 literary agents failed to recognize the book when it was sent unsolicited by an author who called himself Erik Demos. Demos is the nom de hoax chosen by Chuck Ross, a Los Angeles freelance writer out to prove what thousands of aspiring first novelists already know: it is virtually impossible for an unknown author to break into print through the U.S. mails with what is known in the trade as an "over the transom" manuscript...