Word: lied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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West Point, famous for its injunction that no cadet lie, cheat or steal, is weighing significant changes in its honor system...
...committee plans to evaluate the honor code--which says simply that a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do--to make distinctions between violations of the honor code and violations of administrative regulations, which might invite less stringent punishment...
...poll to plumb the depths of our charity: What do we give, and why, and who does the giving, and how much? It turns out that almost half of all American adults offer their time to a cause, an astounding figure even allowing for the number of people who lie to pollsters. And most are giving more time than ever. These are commitments, not gestures. The average volunteer offers nearly five hours a week, for a total of 19.5 billion hours in 1987 -- the equal, roughly, of 10 million full-time employees. There is something infectious about mercy...
...lie there: he must spend more time acting than Michael Caine put together. This fall, five Hackman films were released. "I'll take what's offered me," he says, "as long as it falls into certain parameters. I'm not going for the home run every time." Sometimes Hackman has hit bunt singles in a movie resume as long as a Chicago Cubs season. Yet he projects such solid authority that not even junk can embarrass him. "I actually think I've been lucky," says the star who can't say no. "Working constantly not only keeps me sharp...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan. Some 16 years of research went into this absorbing account of U.S. Army Lieut. Colonel John Paul Vann, a man as high- minded and flawed as the mission he undertook in Viet...