Word: sham
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...whopping 12 interceptions through the first four games of the 2005 season. “We never really gave our defense a chance,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said, “with three offensive turnovers and two special teams turnovers. Field position was obviously just a sham today.”Saturday’s gruesome 27-13 loss to Cornell left no doubt about the repercussions of Harvard’s inability to hold on to the ball, as three of the Crimson’s turnovers translated directly into points for the Big Red.The point...
...That's a sham, a fraud by radical techies who developed file sharing, so all it is is a front for stealing. At the end of the day, they built their house of cards on our back...
...birthday parties as well. On Halloween Sal, Ron and 2,600 Rockyites--some from as far away as Montreal, London, Sacramento, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Bronx--made a pilgrimage to Manhattan's cavernous Beacon Theater for a tenth-anniversary bash. Sal presented sham Oscars to each of seven R.H.P.S. actors, who tried not to look as if they had wandered into a Star Dreck convention. The audience judged a costume contest: dozens of odd fellows dressed as their favorite Rocky characters. Everyone had a ball. Richard O'Brien, dressed for the occasion in a cunning black tube top with...
...Frank Zarb, who for years was his quietly designated successor should the worst happen--lost faith and pushed him to resign, first as CEO and then as chairman, in March. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed civil fraud charges in May, accusing Greenberg of orchestrating "sham transactions" that hid losses and inflated AIG's net worth. Just last week he resigned from AIG's board, ending his last official tie to the company--the same week two executives at General Re, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway that did business with AIG, pleaded guilty to civil...
...manic Lanny Morris (Kevin Bacon) - and the efforts of a young journalist (Alison Lohmann) to solve the case. Such a tale, set in two periods, the glitzy 1950s and shaggy 70s, might have had some period effervescence. But the concoction here is flatter than a long-opened bottle of sham...