Word: spuriousness
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...created an elite world in which it can self-referentially debate without ever acknowledging the possibility of other voices. If newsworthiness is discussed to the exclusion of those researched facts we once called news, that rocky slope of basic oversight—and of the media’s spurious megalomania—draws ever near. But who, en route, will fault a little gazing in the mirror? In these spectacular times, image is everything...
...only one your boss is underpaying. The IRS recently warned that more small-business owners are failing to withhold income and other taxes from their employees' paychecks. Some companies are even bragging on the Net or in seminars about how easily they get away with it, making spurious claims that the taxes apply only to foreign corporations. Offenders caught in the new crackdown could face time in jail and severe fines. But working stiffs don't get off the hook either. In the event that your boss manages to dodge the feds, you will have to foot the bill...
Taking the Pie Higher. Bush supporters not drawn from the ranks of the wealthy or the socially conservative have simply been duped by a spurious devotion to personality over politics, the effectiveness of the Republican slander campaign against Vice President Al Gore '69 and near-total inability of the Democrats to articulate the issues at stake. These three tragic elements combine to give working-class independents, who will swing the election, the mistaken idea that the route to education reform, environmental protection and a fair wage for a fair day's work runs through a vacuous philosophical sham termed "Compassionate...
This approach has usually worked. Putin has also quite often denied knowledge of an embarrassing event or subtly hinted that it was the responsibility of subordinates. He did this in February, when Radio Liberty journalist Andrei Babitsky was handed over by security services to spurious Chechen guerrillas. In June, when Gusinsky was arrested, Putin told a press conference in Germany that he had been unable to find out why Gusinsky was in prison: he had not been able to phone the prosecutor general. Today Chechnya, once Putin's abiding policy passion, is rarely mentioned now that the military effort there...
...Boston Globe has a problematic history with columnists of late. Two of them - Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle - have been obliged to leave for very real offenses. Jeff Jacoby is the Kimba Wood here. He has been forced to leave (without pay, for four months) for wholly spurious reasons...