Word: pretenders
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...without taking health care opportunities away from people. There are no individual administrators or standing groups, either in the University or in any of the separate schools, that work on this issue consistently. Occasionally in the past three years, consultants have visited the campus, usually peddling unattractive plans which pretend to "quality-conscious" cost containment, while actually reducing benefits or limiting access. The University's participation in the Joint Health Care Advisory Committee, created in the HUCTW Agreement, has been reluctant and unproductive...
...pretend to be hip to the ways of Washington," says 1992's Mr. Smith. "I'm not going to go to Washington on a high horse, or even a pony...
...advocates of the "service-first" philosophy argue that the council is just another extra-curricular, that it has a limited mandate and should not pretend otherwise...
Interspersed among the songs is a series of phone conversations between Prince and an intrepid reporter named Vanessa Bartholomew, sportingly played by Cheers TV star Kirstie Alley. "Why do you pretend to be a maze?" she asks in exasperation. "I'm amazed at your beauty," Prince replies. But his real answer seems to be in the lyric of My Name Is Prince, in which he declares, "I know from righteous I know from sin/ I got two sides and they're both friends...
Give us double reverses and Statues of Liberty and all kinds of trick plays. Try onside kicks and fake punts. I might even suggest a play my high school once used, where the quarterback and one wide receiver pretend to argue over signals while the ball is snapped directly to a halfback, who throws a pass...