Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fold or more. Such a routine does little to demonstrate to the lawless the law's evenhanded integrity. Furthermore, says Morgenthau, "if prisoners knew how long they were going to serve, some of them would go into rehabilitation programs because they wanted to be rehabilitated," and not as a ruse to win parole...
...capitalism and democracy: Phillips, however, paints a subtler picture of an America bedeviled by multiple contradictions--regional, cultural, racial, religious, and ideological. Nowhere is this basic flaw in their analysis more evident than in Piven and Cloward's dismissal of Reagan's appeal to "traditional values" as a corporate ruse. Rather, Reaganism is a very real evocation of long-standing American right-populist political sentiment...
...Texas background. L.B.J. was growing sensitive to the observations that Texas people, Texas clothes, Texas food and Texas language were inundating the capital, and so Hackler was listed as being from Oklahoma. It took U.P.I.'s wily White House correspondent, Merriman Smith, to penetrate the ruse by asking: "When did he move to Texas...
...ruse to lull us while the Kremlin prepared a geopolitical offensive? Or were the Soviets sobered by Nixon's firmness into settling for restraint? Did they seek detente only as a tactical maneuver? Or was there a serious possibility for a long period of stability in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...policies they have advocated pose the most serious threat to the future of a habitable America this side of nuclear arms. And the announcement last week that the Administration was reversing field on those policies and had decided to ban mineral development on national lands looks increasingly like a ruse. In fact, the great turn around may actually make it easier for industry to transform America into one great slag heap...