Word: purported
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blood tests that purport to detect immune-system reactions to silicone leaked from breast implants are unreliable, say critics. The tests do detect antibodies, but not necessarily ones related to silicone...
...Until several years ago, the best chance of finding instant felicity was to go to Japan, a society that polls still purport to be among the most satisfied on earth. A principal reason for such fulfillment no doubt lay in one of the country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...
...prostitution around the world, particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. As a following piece, we focused on a particularly terrible aspect of the problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were too explicit to publish. The ones we did publish were awful enough, haunting...
Second, Lewis fails to address our criticism of one of the most disturbing aspects of the athletic department's budget--the fact that he and his committee, who purport to "oversee" the department, do not have access to the budget numbers. Lewis says our references to "unaccounted-for cash" are "groundless." How would he know...
Director Richard Pearce and writer Janus Cercone purport to present an insider's view of con artistry, but their seen-it-all cynicism is a fraud too. By the end we're eye-high in butterflies, walking cripples and God's own rain shower. The greenest born-again Christian does not believe in climactic miracles as desperately as does a moviemaker looking for a way out of a troubled scenario. No wonder, then, that this Elmer Gantry wannabe winds up as a Field of Streams. And no miracle, either...