Word: hogwash
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What is it about Nastassia Kinski that makes journalists babble like half-baked poets? You spew out this "child-woman, woman-child" hogwash as if it were a controversy important enough to be given more than a passing thought...
...Hogwash? Think back to the early years of Jimmy Carter's Administration Carter made it clear his overriding priority abroad was SALT II, and this tunnel vision gave the Soviets a free hand else where a freedom which, as Afghanistan indicates, they did not hesitate to use. And SALT II was eventually scuttled, as the Soviet adventures that Carter's SALT-centrism bred turned Congress against the arms-control treaty...
...Senate floor. There it may face even rougher treatment as critics attempt to cut $11.3 billion in funds slated for the B-l strategic bomber and two nuclear aircraft carriers. The budget trimmers got some moral support from Gerald Ford, who said last week that it was "hogwash" to think that U.S. security would be endangered by a slowdown in weapons procurement. Said he: "The Soviet Union isn't going to attack the U.S. because you deliver in one fiscal year three less B-l bombers. That's baloney...
...university officials denounced the claims, with John Dennis, dean of the university school of medicine in Baltimore. Saying. "That's a lot of hogwash Mosquitoes only fly a few hundred yards from where they were raised--even with a strong wind," added Dennis who has visited the Pakistan Medical Studied in Lahore, where the parasites were allegedly raised...
Some critics call him a slick promoter and his ideas superficial hogwash. To this, Sandra Hillman, director of promotion and tourism for recently resurrected Baltimore, replies: "So what? The urban environment needs some high-pressure salesmanship. Partners and McNulty have managed to meld preservation with commercial revival. They've raised the sights of some myopic arts groups, and most important, they have turned on a lot of people." -By Wolf Von Eckardt...