Word: pretended
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Those who like their fiction accompanied by a good deal of bookish impedimenta will find almost more than they can handle in Dictionary of the Khazars. Not only does it pretend to reassemble and update its imaginary 1691 predecessor, but it also comes in two forms, a male and a female edition, which differ in only one passage of just under 15 lines of text. Most astonishingly, this novel, translated from the original Serbo-Croatian, has ) become a best seller in France and Germany; its Yugoslav author, Milorad Pavic, 59, a professor of literary history at the University of Belgrade...
...idea for this plan originated out of the masters' concern for the high proportion of athletes in Kirkland House; they pretend this measure would be a solution. But how is diversity being defined? Are we seeking racial diversity, economic diversity, intellectual diversity, extracurricular diversity or social diversity? And why is it automatically assumed that a measure of randomness will produce the right distributions...
...just one of the people, with his affable smile and his 10-gallon hat, but when the bills came to his desk, he cut the taxes of the wealthy and added to the burden on working people. Michael S. Dukakis and vice presidential nominee Lloyd M. Bentsen do not pretend that they are just plain folk. They are more interested in making programs than pretense. They will be on the side of average Americans when it comes time to protect their economic and civil rights...
...Universal Health Law Dukakis would undoubtedly pass if elected president would require employers to buy insurance for uninsured employees. Doctors do not pretend to be excited about what would bring this country one step closer toward socialized medicine, but by itself, the prospect of the law's enaction is not what will make them vote Republican, as some believe...
...Americans in terms of esprit and ingenuity. Two young Minnesota entrepreneurs paid their own way to Alaska, quickly managing with a special de-icing device to calm the whales by enlarging the holes in the ice. But it also raised troubling questions about the human proclivity either to pretend that animals are more like people than they are or to treat them as mere commodities...