Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...succession battle between conservatives and liberals is not over. "He's manageable, and he'll serve as a placeholder until this power struggle is sorted out," said an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Still other observers thought Jiang owed his new job to a very recent success: his skillful "big lie" campaign aimed at convincing many Chinese that no civilian massacre ever happened...
...gambling in high school, where he blew a $1,000 savings account his parents had set up for him. In college he gambled away the receipts of a candy store that he managed; in law school he looted his wife's $4,000 savings account. Says Marc: "I would lie awake at night and relive every race, every game, to figure out where I miscalculated." He never did figure it out; by 1985 he had run up debts of $200,000 and joined Gamblers Anonymous. Family and friends thought he had kicked his habit, but in fact he had simply...
...communications vault? The Marine guard posted down the hall controlled the only alarm system for the code room, Kessler explained. Since the system did not record the time the alarm went off, the Marine could give the KGB undetected access to the PCC for hours at a time, then lie about what time the system was triggered and claim it was a false alarm...
...secret device to monitor the time of alarms. If a Marine let someone into the PCC and lied about the time of the CIA alarm, several sources say, this recording device would have exposed the lie...
...Leora Frucht, an Israeli writer. "The Palestinians want more. They say to us, 'We know you're here to assuage your guilt, and that's fine as far as it goes. Now what we need is to organize some joint actions.' They want us to refuse army service and lie down with them in front of the bulldozers when an Arab house is ordered destroyed. Because we won't do things like that, the Palestinians leave with unfulfilled expectations. We could be doing more harm than good...