Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Labor began to promote use of an expanded version of its General Aptitude Test Battery as a basis for referring job applicants to private employers. But civil rights activists were leery. Minorities score lower in general on the tests than whites; exams have served in the past as a ruse to filter out black or brown applicants. So race norming was added as a way to make the results "color-blind." Eventually, 35 states adopted the Labor Department program in some measure. Until recently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission encouraged firms in some cases to shade scores for the benefit...
...freshman, she replaced the yellowish practice shot with a grapefruit. As her coach looked on in disbelief, she threw the shot about 80 feet. Her ruse was discovered when the shot splattered upon hitting the ground...
...police tried to use the newspapers to restore calm, explaining that the rumors were only the street thieves' ruse for stealing. They even took some of the purported victims to hospitals to prove to them that everything between their legs had been preserved intact...
...armed force of people with an intense allegiance to one person." That person is Prophet, also known as Guru Ma, who claims as many as 30,000 followers around the world. Lately she has been telling them that the apparent warming of U.S.-Soviet relations is a Kremlin ruse designed to get Americans to lower their guard. She warns that the world is entering a "dangerous period" in March and April. Or, as her astrologer and spokesman Murray Steinman puts it, "We're at a general trend of accelerated negative karma...
...imagined more and more eyes looking at me, demanding answers." Realizing that he would be stripped of his prized Red Guard armband if he failed to take part in the assault, he constructed a rationale to justify joining the brutality. His teacher's past devotion had been but a ruse to tar him as a fellow counterrevolutionary, he reasoned. He convinced himself that the manner in which the old man fell to his knees proved that he was guilty...