Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRAVDA. A stinging British satire of Murdochian media moguls more concerned with money than truth gets its U.S. premiere from the Guthrie troupe in Minneapolis...
...written surveys usually include a few ringers (example: "Do you always tell the truth?") to determine whether a job seeker is being candid. No single answer brands a person as a liar or thief, but those who administer the test watch for ominous patterns. Observes Arthur Le Blanc, a California psychologist who helped screen new employees hired for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles: "If you score in a certain range, you're more likely to be dishonest...
...Congress or the Missouri legislature," says an experienced Supreme Court lawyer. "It's not what you do to the Supreme Court of the United States." But NOW President Molly Yard counters that "the court is influenced by public opinion, as is every other political institution in this country." The truth of that claim, like the future of abortion rights, may be put to a decisive test this term...
Perpetuating the cruel hoax that academically deficient athletes are legitimate college students does them a terrible disservice. Proposition 42 merely exposes that unpleasant truth...
...month's bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as an act of "human wickedness" and "cold and calculated evil." With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and some 100 relatives of U.S. victims among the mourners, Whyte said those responsible must be brought to justice, but cautioned, "The uncovering of the truth will not be easy, and evidence that would stand up in a court of law may be hard to obtain...