Word: pretexting
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...pretext that holds the collection of memories together is a party, shortly following the death of one of the mothers, Suyuan Woo (Kieu Chinh). The seven surviving women and their families gather to celebrate the departure of Suyuan's daughter, June (Ming-Na Wen), for China, where she will seek out two long-lost sisters, previously thought to be dead. In "The Joy Luck Club," the daughters must look back to and acknowledge their mothers' experiences in China in order to sort out their own lives. June's impending journey is physical enactment of this...
...that the awards themselves are important; hipness wouldn't allow for that. Winning has little effect on record sales, and there isn't even a nickname -- no Oscar, no Grammy -- for the award statuette. The MTV awards are not so much an official imprimatur as they are the pretext for an all-star rock concert where, just by showing up, your coolness credentials are revalidated...
...supporters in Congress. He also placated Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency, which have been suckered into spending billions of their own on the space station and don't want any changes. By going along to get along, however, he robbed the station of its last pretext of a scientific rationale; on the new station, astronauts will have to live on the space shuttle and will be able to stay in orbit only 20 days -- so much for studying the effects of long-duration weightlessness...
...part of the Harvard Management Company which would require special attention-the handling of the $1.25 billion risk capital or private placement portfolio. Other factors besides sheer professional incompetence and fiscal negligence may be responsible for monumental losses. The managers operate behind a veil of secrecy under the fallacious pretext of losing competitive financial advantage. This argument is nothing less than an insult to Harvard's financial intelligence...
...bring them into a coalition government. Sihanouk's eldest son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, argues that with a government dedicated to expelling the Vietnamese and establishing social justice, the Khmer Rouge would participate in national politics. "If we solve those problems," he says, "how could the Khmer Rouge have a pretext to fight...