Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illegal electronic attachments for telephones that allowed users to make long-distance calls for free. On one occasion, Wozniak called the Vatican and, pretending to be Henry Kissinger, asked for Pope Paul VI. As Wozniak tells the story, the Pontiff was summoned, and Vatican officials caught on to the ruse only after a bishop came on the line to act as translator. In 1972, Jobs entered Oregon's Reed College, but he left two years later to ease his family's financial hardships. He then took a job designing video games at Atari. Wozniak, meanwhile, had dropped...
Perhaps the most popular ruse to launder drug cash, and simultaneously hide it from the IRS, is the use of phony companies in the Caymans or anywhere else with low business taxes and helpful bank secrecy laws. It is one of many devices the dealers have learned by following the example of shady U.S. businessmen. Money is sent to the dummy firm, deposited in a local bank that U.S. government auditors cannot penetrate, and "loaned" to a company owned by the dealers back in Florida. That company can engage in some legal business, pay its owner a salary-giving...
...THEORIES of supply-side economics are hardly the scientific laws their self-righteous proponents claim them to be. Only absurd faith can justify belief that they are more than a political ruse to subsidize the indulgence of large-corporations and the affluent with the sufferings of the needy. It's like a trick with mirrors, the political maneuverings, and the legislation, the theories and the ideology covering for a system that guarantees injustice for the larger population. This time. David Stockman got caught in the middle...
...They're very careful not to talk about religion, but when you look at everything else they publish, when you look at what they make you sign to become a member of their group--I can't believe this ruse will persuade any judge. I can't believe anyone would fail to see this for what it is--an obvious attempt to impose religion on the public schools...
...culprits--his plan is so strangely convoluted--a series of lesser sins to offset greater crimes--that it is barely within the letter, and certainly nowhere near the spirit of the law. The redress of injustice is less than joyful, and certainly less than uncompromised. That this entire ruse is unnecessary, fulfilling only the Duke's own desire for theatrics, gives the play even more of a sour edge. It is the comedy not of the gallows but of the danse macabre: a perverse and unnecessary thing. The Duke takes his charade to such cruel lengths that...