Word: pretender
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...diabetics, eradicating these subtle slights has an almost universal appeal. Few bosses want to create tension between employees with something as simple as a handshake. But, Young says, when one worker is greeted with a polite how-do-you-do while the guy next door gets a playful pretend-punch, it's clear in an instant who is in the inner circle and who isn't. The same is true when a manager dismisses one person's idea and then embraces it when paraphrased by someone else...
...Create a yodel-centric, cow-bell heavy performance art piece. Pretend it is a VES thesis...
...relying on 8 million individuals in this country whom we have decided to keep, unlike past waves of immigration in this country, in an illegal status. And yet our economy needs these people, and we benefit from their labor. And then a lot of us want to pretend it's their fault and criminalize them. It's crazy...
...counter-seduction, according to Sylvester. “Lucien” initiated conversations with women by warning them about men versed in “The Game,” Sylvester wrote.And then “Lucien” sprung a trap, Sylver wrote. “Like watch, pretend I’m one of those dudes who read the book. Do you wanna kiss me?” he asked the women.Or so Sylvester wrote.Neither Voice Managing Editor Doug Simmons nor Sylvester returned repeated phone calls and e-mails requesting comment last night.Though elusive now, Sylvester...
...huge budget-reconciliation bill, on which House and Senate conferees are putting the final touches right now, are a few paragraphs that accomplish an extraordinary feat. They roll back the price of a barrel of crude oil to what it sold for two years ago. They create this pretend price for the benefit of a small group of the politically well connected. You still won't be able to buy gasoline for $1.73 per gal. as you did then, instead of today's $2.28. You still won't be able to buy home heating...