Word: hogwash
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...This is hogwash. Whether a candidate runs on a platform that is anti-apartheid or anti-pu pu platter, whether his or her campaign is political or apolitical, there is an implicit understanding between voters and their choice that the former trusts the latter's judgement in volatile issues like this one regarding the Fly Club. By definition, all governments are inherently political. That the Undergraduate Council identifies itself as a "student government" at the beginning of every schoolyear (when it encourages students to run for office) underscores this truism...
...received a telephone call from Vice President George Bush, who asked him to warn Cuban Leader Fidel Castro not to interfere with the operation. Noriega has long been friendly with the Cuban dictator and has been accused of giving him U.S. intelligence data. Of Blandon's assertion, Bush said, "Hogwash...
Nutritionists deride the pork commercials as hogwash. The meat may be close in color to poultry, but the average serving of pork contains at least twice as much fat as does a piece of turkey or chicken. Pork is not a white meat, no matter how much "producers want to distance themselves from beef, which they perceive as a loser," notes Liebman. The rehabilitation of real food may have begun, say health experts, but it still has a long...
CRITICS WILL say such a scheme impedes the true student-athlete from playing against the best competition. Hogwash. Are college baseball players prevented from competing against the best players in the country in the College World Series? No. Are Harvard hockey players prevented from going to the national championships? Certainly...
...every airline passenger's ticket. Many in the aviation industry contend that Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, who is FAA Administrator Donald Engen's boss, has been cowed by the White House Office of Management and Budget into holding these assigned funds in reserve against the federal deficit. "Hogwash!" says OMB Director James Miller III. "If I had a bias, it would be toward air safety." Unfortunately, that bias has yet to be translated into equipment that might make the nation's crowded "birdcages" safer...