Word: ruses
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...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...
...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...