Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have gone from trading in pretend corporations to trading in parallel time lines. Derivative speculation will make many people rich -- mainly the data cowboys. The rest of us are on the road to big losses. Again...
...idea of the thinking liberal assumes the existence of perfect ideological independence. This is a falsehood. Our political views are not created in a vacuum. Our personal beliefs are influenced by the values of our families and communities, our educations and our personal experiences. To pretend, as the thinking liberals do, that one's view have evolved entirely free of bias is to commit an act of dishonesty. To idealistically proclaim that we can, through the cult of rationality, break free of these biases is to exhibit the most extreme naivete...
...real life, smokers cannot pretend they don't care. They know they are plague victims and suspect they may be carriers. So they try meeting a censorious society halfway. They puff on their butts behind a closed office door, and indulge their health-nut friends by abstaining from cigarettes during the dinner hour -- which, without a nicotine fix, seems to stretch on for days...
...spirit of aging honestly, Friedan scorned those who pretend they are younger than they...
Having taken the bother out of farming and changed it into high finance, Chicago then turned its attention to high finance itself, introducing futures and options so that investors could buy and sell pretend baskets of stocks. These baskets were a big hit among professional fund managers, who used the pretend stocks to hedge their positions whenever they were afraid they owned too many real stocks...