Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measures to reduce government spending, and was bringing down inflation while increasing exports. But the country has since slipped back, partly because the declining price of oil has cut down the amount of money it earns abroad. Any previous hopes that Mexico might improve economically without new borrowing now lie amid the rubble of that earthquake-devastated land. Nonetheless, the U.S. believes that fresh loans would allow Mexico to get back on the road to growth by encouraging local investment...
...critics say it is far less reliable in practice, in part because samples are not always properly stored or handled by lab personnel. "From the point of view of analytical chemistry, these Emit tests are unacceptable," says Dr. David Greenblatt, a clinical pharmacologist at the New England Medical Center. Lie detectors are also frequently attacked as inaccurate, and Montana Congressman Patrick Williams has gathered 160 co-sponsors for a bill that would bar private employers from using them. "These gadgets are an electronic Maginot Line," says Williams. "They don't add to actual security...
...side of its own success story. For the next decade, domestic dramas, spy pictures and detective thrillers would be shrouded in expressionist shadows and shot with oblique camera angles. Kane's multiple-narrator format announced that no one was to be trusted with the whole truth; the camera could lie too, and we would have to decide whether to believe it. Welles dragged the movies into modernism, with sequences that keep playing in any film lover's imaginary screening room: the three-story family squabble in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); the hall-of- mirrors gunfight in The Lady from Shanghai...
...evening, for instance, a woman approached Father Too's Kelly and handed him a Catholic baptismal certificate. She was obviously 21 years old, she claimed, because good Catholics don't lie. She was turned away. Another example: a young Black patron tried to get past Mark at Nine Lansdowne by presenting a photo identification of an middle-aged white male...
...summed up by a list of his performances. In private, he had to live by a double standard that seemed, in the last few years, to make him cynical and even resentful. From the moment he attracted enough attention to be noticed by gossip columnists, he had to lie to hide the inescapable fact that he was attracted to men rather than women. In 1955, when a scandal magazine threatened to expose his sexual preference, Universal arranged a hasty marriage of convenience with Henry Willson's secretary Phyllis Gates. Divorce followed...