Word: liar
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...information about job applicants, will assume graduates from a school as expensive as Harvard are particularly productive workers. But this explanation is still problematic. If employers were only looking for a pricey name, there would be no distinguishable difference between a student who attends the College and a crafty liar who buys a Harvard diploma on the Internet for $300. Don’t we gain any benefit from attending the school itself...
DIED. RONALD ZIEGLER, 63, President Nixon's defiant, clueless press aide during the Watergate scandal; of a heart attack; in Coronado, Calif. Ziegler was only 29 when Richard Nixon sent him to manage the hostilities in the White House press room. "Ron Zig-liar," some reporters called him, but the lies Ziegler told were mostly the President's, given that he didn't really know what was going on in the White House. When Nixon packed himself off to exile in 1974, Ziegler went with him. It was as if he didn't know what else...
...last week that Iraq had failed to disclose some information about its weapons programs, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Iraq was again in "material breach" of U.N. resolutions, bringing the U.S. closer to war. Material breach, hitherto an unfamiliar bit of legalese, today is the preferred euphemism for "liar, liar." It's just one of several words and phrases that took on new currency...
...We’re going to boycott every place we can and call him a liar,” McCarthy said at the time of the cancellation. “We don’t want people buying his book...
Hunter Maats: My mother was a hippie and did a lot of drugs. She had a fascination with Hunter S. Thompson, which I think is where the name comes from. She says that’s not it, but frankly, I think she’s a liar. She says it’s a beautiful and powerful name—some hippie crap. Now, my last name, Maats. My dad is Dutch, and Maat is Dutch for measure or measurement. It comes from Ma’at, who is the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and universal order...