Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spurious tip that local constables frequent a certain table at Harvard’s newly 24/7 Au Bon Pain, FM rises at the ungodly hour of 6:40 a.m. on a Friday morning to investigate...
...that are trial balloons filled with nothing but gas. That has spawned a host of wild rumors, often spread in text messages?"GMA will declare martial law on or before June 21 ... Stock up on water and groceries"?and a confusion that could eventually prove truly dangerous. The spurious warnings that the sky is falling mask the fact that Arroyo does indeed have lots of enemies. The public now has access to a tape-recorded telephone conversation of Arroyo allegedly discussing the manipulation of votes with an election-commission official after last year's presidential poll. If authentic, it would...
Early this year a bomb went off in a computer at the Los Angeles department of water and power. The device did not explode; it was a "logic bomb," a smidgen of spurious software coding that had been secretly inserted into the giant IBM machine. At a preassigned time, the logic bomb suddenly went off and maliciously froze the utility's internal files. Work came to a standstill until a team of experts, including the Los Angeles police department's newly formed computer crime unit, was able to uncover the subversive coding. The unknown criminal, who could face five years...
...excited about the prospect. Its joint bid last year with U.S. Steel for Kryvorizhstal included $1.5 billion for a 93% stake in the plant, plus promised investment of $1.2 billion to raise production and improve quality. The offer was blocked on technical grounds that Mittal and others attacked as spurious. Now the company is hopeful it will win out. "If they do annul [the sale] and ask for bids again, we'd definitely be very, very interested," says the company's owner Lakshmi Mittal. He adds jokingly: "In fact, instead of going through a new process, this government should declare...
...letter’s allegations against Gross and Harris proved to be spurious. The copied passages do not appear in the two professors’ 2003 textbook, nor do they appear on the textbook’s official companion website, maintained by publisher Prentice Hall...