Word: sham
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This gene was then injected into a mouse egg. After the altered gene was taken up by the nucleus of the egg, the egg was placed in the uterus of a 'sham' female mouse, one which had been mated top a sterile male...
...boxing that's dead, has been since Primo Carnera retired. It's a sham and a shuck, lacking the je ne sais quoi of monster-truck racing and the visual appeal of a carton of eggs falling off the kitchen counter. Nobody cares except a couple dozen middle-aged sports editors. If those guys would unplug the publicity tubes...
...life in prison for 21 deaths caused by two 1974 Birmingham pub bombings carried out in the name of the Irish Republican Army, the six Irishmen won their liberty after Britain's Court of Appeal at last concurred with their contention that the case against them was a sham...
...addition, Katz claims that "The all volunteer force is a sham, since economic factors have forced the poorer, Blacker sections of America to sign up in disproportionately high numbers." In The Salient I also mentioned that today's military requires that almost all recruits have a high school diploma or its equivalent, which excludes from the military nearly three quarters of the Black men who used to apply, along with many other poor people. The armed forces draw the bulk of their strength neither from an exploited underclass nor from the generally hedonistic upper classes, but from the lower-middle...
...bombshell. Not because the offer has the remotest chance of being accepted. President Bush promptly called it a "cruel hoax," and British Prime Minister John Major redundantly labeled it a "bogus sham." But Iraq for once was pointedly not boasting about making American and other allied soldiers drown in their own blood, not spurning all talk of a cease- fire with contempt, not claiming that Kuwait is and always will be the country's 19th province...