Word: purport
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...arise, the incidents are anything but isolated. "These facilities are chronically understaffed, and the staff is chronically undertrained," says Kary Hyre, long-term-care ombudsman for the State of Washington, whose office gets about 1,250 complaints a year. The HHS study found that 25% of the facilities that purport to offer the highest level of services had only 1 caregiver for every 20 residents on the 3 p.m.-to-11 p.m. shift and just 1 for every 34 residents overnight. "Once the facilities are built, their main expenses are staff and food," says Catherine Hawes, the national study...
...spotlight a product in an idealized, favorable setting. But they raise other questions. Virtual placements could alter past producers' creative work willy-nilly. As for physical placements, producers do disclose their sponsors--but there's disclosure and then there's disclosure. Viewers know commercials are scripted. But reality shows purport to show actual events --how a player felt, how a product performed. What if unscripted events don't follow the advertiser's script? Contestants on Fox's Murder drive Jeeps. If one of them stalls, does Fox cut the scene? "No," says executive producer George Verschoor. "In fact, Jeep encouraged...
...Communist Party, for its part, seems to know that persecuting religions can actually make them more alluring. The Freedom House documents, which purport to be the party's strategies for suppressing evangelical Christianity, makes this observation: "The numbers grow slowly if we have a relaxed policy, and if we crack down harder, it grows faster." Even the party is realizing it's difficult to beat anyone fighting a holy...
...anyone who argues that nature has a law concerning morality and, moreover, that he or she knows the content of that law. The religious arguments all boil down to one statement: it's wrong because my god told me so. Aside from the fact that all statements which purport to come from the divine have to pass through human editors, there is no compelling evidence whether or not a divine being exists...
Despite advances of learning in our computer age, we read daily horoscopes with credulity, and we persist in our study of the still-beguiling works of ancient Merlins. On the Internet, mysterious quatrains of the 16th century French physician and prognosticator Michel Nostradamus purport to contain foreknowledge of plagues and fires and even of 21st century politics. Visions of apocalypse in the Bible's Book of Revelation are persuasive enough to inspire generations of doomsayers and to drive some believers to suicide...