Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience for cases," Haire says. "It's less prestigious. It's a basic decision on what you want to do. If you want nuts-and-bolts lawyering you don't get at the Law Review, you can do the Bureau. It's a guess where your talents and interests lie...
...called Vellucci's claim to have raised nearly $30,000 "nothing but a lie" and also said the Cambridge representative exaggerated his claim to have sent 180 volunteer canvassers to the polls on Super Tuesday...
...Sterling ad focuses more on an elegant, quasi-rural image of chic. The ad depicts the beige upholstery and warm wood trim of the car's interior--described in loving detail as "a secluded chamber of Connolly leather and burled walnut." A well-worn satchel and a map lie carefully placed on the seat awaiting, presumably, use in some grand adventure. The ad portrays an atmosphere of modern royalty--variously referring to the car as a "kingdom" which costs "only a youngish prince's ransom...
WHERE did the activists lose their way? Part of the blame has to lie with the alumni who campaigned to place their insurgents on the Board of Overseers. While the product of a sincere desire to have a say in decision-making, the alumni movement has also drawn students to the governance red herring. Divestment activists who once built shanties now stuff envelopes urging alumni to vote for Peter Wood for Overseer. In the sixties, radical college students learned to distrust their elders. Now their alumni elders have become their role models...
...pardon would say that the democratic process is only a valid one sometimes, and that highly committed patriots can set it aside -- like Dr. Strangelove," notes Ethicist Josephson. He adds, "It would send a message that there are times when we will permit high-level Government officials to lie to Congress. How could we trust anything afterward...