Word: rumoring
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...whole new McCain does not mean a whole new politics. The slander, the rumor-mongering, the fluffy message-hawking - these are all symptoms of a very old sickness that has rattled around America for a while. Young voters are interested in Obama because he is so unlike the person McCain is showing himself to be. The viral video ad the McCain campaign released isn't a hit because people see through this desperate strategy. Since the Democratic primaries, Obama has clung to a belief in meaningful arguments and substance. He has refused, so far, to pander to the kind...
...worse than it probably was," says Navneeta Chadha Behera, author of Demystifying Kashmir. "In effect it was like a psychological war. A fear psychosis was created where people panicked about shortage of medicines and milk for children, about truckloads of apples rotting. How much was fact and how much rumor, no one knows...
...similar stories. They accuse the American and Western press of lying about the events in Georgia. No one believes that the Russians have invaded Georgia and that Tbilisi and other cities have been bombed. Because the Russian press has not reported it, they say, it cannot be true. A rumor widely circulated is that black soldiers have been spotted fighting on the Georgian side. This is seen as incontrovertible evidence that America is helping Georgia with military aid. There is widespread, anti-American sentiment here...
Fans can follow their story in the off-season in gossip pages, blogs and celebrity magazines. (You may well know them from those even if you've never watched the show.) Thus when a rumor circulated that Lauren and a boyfriend had made a sex tape, it played in the gossip sheets, then came up in Season 3, when she accused Heidi of helping spread the dirt...
...bible may teach that human life is priceless, but in my early years as Inspector General, I heard rumors that a Federal Aviation Administration study assigned a worth to the average passenger who might die in a plane crash. In its cost-benefit analysis, the rumor went, the FAA easily determined that the value of those lives didn't amount to much compared with the hard, cold billions that saving them would cost in aircraft-safety devices, in beefed-up monitoring of planes, pilots and air traffic, and in airports hermetically sealed against bombs and hijacking...