Word: ruse
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...provisions of the law could be read to forbid businesses from even selling goods to illegal aliens, said Rudy Espinal, president of the newly formed Hazleton Hispanic Business Association, which has 43 members. The ordinance threatens any business "that aids and abets illegal aliens... through any agent, ruse, guise device or means, however indirect." "We believe it is too difficult to expect business owners to start checking IDs before they sell a soda" said Espinal, who moved to Hazleton in 2001 and is now a real estate agent and tax preparer and a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The Dominican immigrant...
...have trouble at the airport? I had to throw away all my makeup. I believe it's an elaborate ruse perpetrated by the big cosmetics industry. Maybe it's not terrorism. Maybe it's Maybelline." JIMMY KIMMEL...
...arms to become just another Lebanese political party would be a complete reversal. More militant factions could easily splinter off. Certainly Iran and Syria will want to keep proxies able to make mischief in Lebanon. Hizballah's endorsement of the Lebanese government's package deal could also be a ruse. After Hizballah ministers had signed up to it, Nasrallah appeared on TV, threatening more rockets on Israel. "I'm sure Hizballah is saying yes to buy time," says a senior Lebanese source. "They don't intend to disarm. They are smart...
...they strategically sidestep the most salient dimension of illegal immigration—that millions of immigrant families have already settled down as Americans. The law is effective only in so far as it can be applied practically and humanely. It would be a shame to let a rhetorical ruse convince us otherwise...
...cell phone. A resourceful blogger, hoping to call attention to the black market in phone records, turned the general into his privacy-rights guinea pig in January. For $89.95, he purchased, no questions asked, the records of 100 cell-phone calls that Clark had made. (He revealed the ruse to Clark soon after.) "It's like someone taking your wallet or knowing who paid you money," Clark says. "It's no great discovery, but it just doesn't feel right." Since then, Clark has become a vocal supporter of the movement to outlaw the sale of cell-phone records...