Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lozano's family claims Bean-Bayog lured the man into an affair, made him pretend to be her 3-year-old child and caused him to become suicidal. The family has filed a malpractice and wrongful death suit against the psychiatrist...
...social compact was a joke: "We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us." As for savings, which are an economic statement of faith in the future, what was the point? To have more rubles with which to scour empty shelves or to stuff under the mattress? But there was also no point in complaining. The Ministry of Finance was, like everything else, subordinated to the Ministry of Fear. The ruble, quite simply, was the monetary manifestation of totalitarianism...
...OTHER candidates just don't get it--or pretend not to get it. The most chilling moment of the campaign occurred in a recent debate when former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas tried to dispute Brown's point about how monied interests influence the system...
...PRETEND YOU'RE an observant Jew at Harvard. After years of being an undergraduate prisoner to Charlie Tuna, limited to a meager malnutritional diet of Star--Kist and cheese--despite paying full board costs--Mike Berry, head of Dining Services/Mealtime Messiah has taken the first steps to setting you free. You can now be carefree and consume such kosher cuisine as a knish from the Dunster kosher table. For the first time you can be fully integrated into the dining hall scene...
...drug dealer needs a beeper and a gun. Kids who are not actually dealers pack a gun to pretend that they are. A gun makes a man-child dangerous and commands respect. As the cartoon figure He-Man says, "I have the power!" A firefight may be set off by a drug turf war or, as with Tyrone and Ian, some lesser thing. Children kill children over earrings and jackets and tennis shoes...