Word: pretenders
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...what the CERN researchers really expect, and hope, to find is something totally unpredicted. "In science nobody really knows what is going to come next," says Rubbia. "We always pretend that we know the answers, but nature keeps advising us that...
...students are encouraged to look at subjects more broadly rather than more narrowly," Landes said. "Social Studies is not a sociology department--it does not pretend...
...going to pretend that the performance of Hector Berlioz's heroic opera Les Troyens (The Trojans), which has just opened the new Opera de la Bastille in Paris, is anything near the composer's gigantic vision. But for the moment that does not matter. What does matter is what the production represented: a triumph for Myung-Whun Chung, the Opera's untested 37-year-old Korean-American music director; a triumph for Pierre Berge, the man who hired Chung; a triumph for Carlos Ott, the unknown Canadian architect; a triumph for French President Francois Mitterrand; and, most important...
...true that no one can give a precise answer as to where the next threat will come from. That does not mean -- as the peace dividenders of today loudly pretend -- that there is none...
...naive and highly dangerous, therefore, to pretend that with the end of this latest war, war is abolished. Yet that is what we want to believe. In 1943 Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned from the Moscow Conference that set the foundation for a United Nations and told a joint session of Congress that as the provisions of the conference were carried out, "there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power, or any other of the special arrangements through which, in the unhappy past, the nations strove to safeguard their security...