Word: liar
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...corrupt, Jack Grubman says; he's just a liar and a braggart. A former star analyst of telecom companies for the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, Grubman says that when he upgraded his investment opinion of AT&T in November 1999--after years of dissing the stock--it had nothing to do with winning investment-banking fees for Salomon, helping his boss Sanford Weill survive a power struggle or getting the Grubman twins into an exclusive nursery school. A string of emails in which he raised all these issues--and which were obtained by reporters last week--are "baseless...
...We’re going to boycott every place we can and call him a liar,” McCarthy said. “We don’t want people buying his book...
...concerned that the hero of Umberto Eco's beguiling and exasperating new novel is a cheerful liar. As Eco sees it, the universe is nothing but a sparkling tissue of lies. As for the thing we call knowledge--of ourselves, one another, the world at large--it's mostly a matter of which illusions we choose to believe...
...rally without a police permit; in Singapore. Chee's application for a permit had been rejected on the grounds that the rally would threaten law and order. It is the third trip to jail for Chee, who Singapore's founder Lee Kuan Yew has called a "congenital liar" and a "political gangster...
...carry Glock semiautomatic pistols and are trained to deal with chemical and biological weapons. But there is no end to the number of hiding places in the trucks, vans and cars snaking across the bridge, each waiting for an inspector to play a 25-second game of Spot the Liar...