Word: pretended
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...Internet search revealed the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network, through which retired professionals advise start-ups like NEU Magazine as well as established businesses seeking to grow.They also sought advice from people currently working in the publishing industry.“You ask questions as you go, you pretend you’re dumb, and then you take the information and run with it,” Matthews says. “You learn a lot how to weasel information out of people, because no one wants to help you with your career because that means you?...
...loathing for a moment to romanticize his homeland of Senegal on “Mama Africa.” The equally hopeful “Don’t Matter” does the same thing. Akon doesn’t so much leave his problems behind as successfully pretend that they don’t exist. Akon, who brings Eminem out of semi-retirement on “Smack That,” has publicly credited him-self with getting Slim Shady excited about music again. “Konvicted” suggests that Eminem should stay away while...
...reaction to Tuesday’s losses suggests that most Republicans do recognize the true breadth of the problems the party faces. But regardless of their level of understanding, recovery will take time. Republicans cannot pretend that simply disavowing prior errors of judgment and promising a fresh start will instantly solve their problems. The credibility gap that Congressional Republicans’ corruption, arrogance, ineptitude, and hopeless defense of the Bush administration has created is simply too great. The negative impact of the past can only be erased with time...
...response to this exclusion is in line with New England’s general sentiment: just pretend it’s not there...
Delude yourselves with a sense of pride; go ahead, pretend you’re a Harvard student for the weekend. Wear Crimson; no one will question you. It’s better than choosing Princeton as a new rival and finding out that you’re not even second best...