Word: ruse
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...Arnie and his gang of heroes break into a high-tech, top-secret facility to use a highly protected computer terminal; they dress up as an emergency medical crew as a ruse...
...council recently passed the Nelson-Grimmelmann Act to institutionalize the administrative approval process, but to this point has been a transparent ruse for administrative inaction. As the respect and concern given to students by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and his colleagues continues to decrease exponentially, it is encouraging to see the council acting as our advocate. We urge the council to use the Nelson-Grimmelmann act often and responsibly next year, forcing the administration to go on the record about these important student issues. Lewis' decisions should be exposed to public scrutiny...
...time when federal programs for children are targets of a budget-cutting Congress and of a White House that has proved willing to experiment with the social safety net. Conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and the Traditional Values Coalition this week dismissed the event as a ruse by left-leaning activists to use children's issues to keep "big government" alive. Edelman, a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton with deep Democratic roots, fired back: "Too many of them . . . don't seem to be worried about big government when it comes to the Pentagon." TIME senior writer Elizabeth...
...send 10 of the CIA's most prized Soviet agents to their death, but his secrets also helped Moscow plant a network of at least a half-dozen double agents, who began slipping both real and bogus information to their CIA handlers. But even after CIA officials discovered the ruse in 1991, they continued to send the White House and Pentagon top-secret reports based on what the doubles were telling them--and never bothered to warn in the reports that the information was suspect. CIA Director John Deutch last week called the lack of truth in labeling "an inexcusable...
...issue was a ruse whereby Leeson reconciled his year-end accounts in 1994. Both the London and Singapore reports agree that Leeson fabricated a $79 million credit from Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, a New York City-based securities trader, to offset his losses. When Barings' external auditors questioned the entry, Leeson forged faxes from Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, Citibank and one of his superiors in London to show that the money had indeed been paid to Barings. The auditors accepted Leeson's explanation although they failed to notice the words "from Nick and Lisa" printed...