Word: rubbishing
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Benazir Bhutto had grown impatient with the rumors, and dismissed them angrily. "Rubbish," she told TIME. In interviews she insisted that her ties with Pakistani President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari were fine, that the talk of his sacking her government was just disinformation from the dark forces she claimed were out to strangle her country's hobbling democracy. Never mind that Leghari himself had publicly suggested the move. If the President had problems with her, the Prime Minister said repeatedly, she didn't see why he didn't bring them up. On Tuesday morning he did just that--and laid...
...Baghdad journalist told me bitterly, "America says it's concerned about the Iraqi people. That's clearly so much rubbish. It'll do anything to spite Saddam Hussein, even depriving the people here of food and medicine that they desperately need." In times like these, I hear more talk about Iraqi nationalism, at least from those friends who want to talk. The others say nothing much at all. They have withdrawn into themselves, maybe better to contemplate their misery...
...followers. I remember walking around Moscow with my friend Syoma. The city was cold and dirty. One could easily break one's leg because the sidewalks, uncleared for months, were covered with mountains of ice. The squares and the streets near train and subway stations overflowed with vendors peddling rubbish, anything to make a living. In the clumsy stalls were bottles of whiskey, packs of chewing gum, piles of sunglasses. That is what the new regime offered the citizens of this great but impoverished city. Syoma, depressed and resigned, told me how twice he had tried to open a small...
...Experts are reacting cautiously, and some are being downright impolite. Says Peter Green, a University of Texas classicist and the author of an acclaimed biography of Alexander: ``It's the biggest piece of rubbish I've heard in years...
...looking for a good working definition of "rubbish," you might have just stumbled upon it. What is at stake for the Council is not a deep-seated concern for the physical welfare of students. If that were the case, the Peace Corps, which sends graduates to the heart of the Third World, or Teach for America, which brings students into inner city ghettos, would incur similar faculty scrutiny...