Word: throwing
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...government deceives the public in other ways about its "miracle money-raiser." Lotteries do not keep taxes low--unless the analysis is limited to the wealthy. It has been shown in numerous studies that lotteries act as a regressive tax. Poor people, chasing the dream of hitting the jackpot, throw away a significantly larger proportion of their disposable income, and often some of their nondisposable income, than do the middle and upper classes...
While many presidential candidates have grand visions for molding the Undergraduate Council into a campus force that will bring the administration to its knees, throw wildly successful concerts and distribute thousands of dollars to needy student groups, Hill has a much more nihilist vision...
...G.O.P. is hauling out its biggest guns. The Chamber of Commerce will soon announce the formation of a sprawling new coalition called the Center on the 21st Century Workplace. The center will start by publishing economic studies in support of corporate and government downsizing but then will quickly throw money into a grass-roots effort to downsize the Democrats on Capitol Hill. "Unions have the money and the motivation," the Chamber's Bruce Josten says. "Now the business community is going to get more aggressive in return...
...judges (admittedly a little after the fact) in the Flamingo Resort Hotel Ballroom in Santa Rosa, California, late last year. Of course, there was testimony against him, primarily from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But that foursome is notoriously unreliable: the judges at the Flamingo already had to throw out the Evangelists' testimony on the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Sermon on the Mount and any number of other cases. So, as regards the matter of Judas, although there was a good deal of debate--some people felt the evidence showed he did do it, some people felt...
...that only six or seven of the pieces even fit together." A reasonable person, he maintains, would "put those pieces together, make some guess about what that part of the puzzle might be about and then modestly decline overspeculation about the pieces that don't fit." Instead, "these solvers ... throw away the central piece ... and then bring in pieces from other puzzles [i.e., apocryphal manuscripts]. Finally, they take this jumble of pieces, sketch an outline of what the [whole thing] ought to look like on the basis of some universal puzzle pattern, and proceed to reshape the pieces until they...