Word: spuriousness
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...press conference, the President drew a somewhat spurious distinction between the grain and pipeline deals: "The technology for the pipeline is mainly only obtainable from the U.S. Grain, the Soviet Union can get in other places." He said that the grain deal will require Moscow to pay out hard currency, which it could otherwise use to build up its military. More important, however, was that this money would go to U.S. farmers, whereas the pipeline benefits only Western Europe...
...their policy. Gay and lesbian parents are routinely refused custody of their children on the grounds of "perversion" Unfortunately, most homosexuals do not as Mr. Pattullo suggests, support basic rights bring up the issue of gay parents sometime, and watch what happen') in the crunch, they come up with spurious reasons for not permitting homosexuals simple human rights and dignity. Mr. Pattullo's statement that homosexually lacks heterosexual values (i.e. the "right" ones) is one such excuse, consisting as it does of misinformation and stereotyping...
...Kremlin can avenge that humiliation and pursue political and military advantages at the expense of American and Western interests. In recent months the Soviets have treated the resumption of arms-control talks in Geneva primarily as an opportunity to score propaganda points by advancing highly self-serving, largely spurious proposals for a moratorium on new missiles in Europe. This plan, if adopted, would leave them with a brand-new generation of rockets that they have nearly finished deploying, while preventing NATO from modernizing its older forces in order to redress the balance...
...world scene it is equally obvious that no single nation has the moral record or credibility to lead the movement for progressive change. At the same time, while most national leaders engage in a great deal of public moralizing and high sounding rhetoric, it is, for the most part, spurious, designed for purely poltical reasons for the cold war school...
...reminiscence by a crazed old railroader. Dance bands played regularly on the Prairie Queen, and they had great names: "The Kolachy Brothers, the Big Pisek Hot Band, Cecil Pootz and His Grafton Spuds, the Wonderbar Orchestra, and yes, the great Bill Baroon and His Paloreenies . . ." A marvelously spurious history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise Waffle show at 5 a.m. daily to Slim Graves and His Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. "Rise and shine," Slim would tell his listeners every day, "sit up and howl, there...