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...counter argument that cutting tax rates increases the federal deficit, which is monetized, thereby generating inflation is also a spurious one. First, in light of historical precedent a reduction in tax revenues is by no means certain--in fact, unlikely. Second, even if the tax cuts do increase the deficit, they in no way obligate the Federal Reserve to crank up the printing presses...
...High School fashioned his aunt a novel Christmas gift: a "money tree," fluttering with $5 bills the boy had run off on the school's press. The boy's uncle promptly destroyed the present. But some of the artful student's classmates swiped hundreds of the spurious notes...
...Another spurious quote--"They are all foreign agents spying on us"--was signed George Bush...
...improbable explanations for its linkages between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have been laid out, all the false trails explored, the action lies buried under a pile of verbiage. It used to be that detective stories were lean and laconic. The attempt to give them spurious importance by having them address what are thought to be big subjects is ruining them. They really must get back to their Bogartian basics. -By Richard Schickel
...exhilirating pace, crammed full of playful action, hair-raising stunts and cinematic fiddling. Unfortunately--perhaps for fear of not being in some way Significant--Rush strives too hard for more and flaws a most remarkable film. In his anxiousness not to be merely entertaining, Rush injects overblown and spurious material that interferes with the pure amusement of the spectacle--as if there were something so mere about good entertainment that the filmmaker has to go out of his way to drape it in places with solemn purple robes of meaning...