Word: deceitful
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...threat to peace. But very few potential allies are willing to accept at face value U.S. claims about Saddam's programs. They want proof, which is why the inspectors were sent back. Only if Saddam refuses to cooperate with the inspectors, or if they turn up evidence of Iraqi deceit, will Washington find support at the UN for going...
...corporate villains. Likewise, it was convenient for Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002—also called the “Accounting Reform Act”—reaching out to the victimized common man and calling for the eradication of big business deceit...
...torture. I fully appreciate that these terrorists are extremely tough characters and that an element of torture may be necessary to get them to spill the beans. But the U.S.'s democratic system may be harmed by something far more perilous than acts of terrorism: the worm of deceit. The preservation of democracy may require the use of wicked actions, but any act deemed too wicked to speak of plainly must be too wicked to perform. NICK GODWIN Edinburgh...
...another subject--gays and lesbians--LaHaye's views are not just eccentric but downright odious. In his 1978 book The Unhappy Gays--which even today LaHaye calls "a model of compassion"--he wrote that homosexuality is "vile" and that gays share 16 pernicious traits, which include "incredible promiscuity," "deceit," "selfishness," "vulnerability to sadism-masochism" and "poor health and an early death." He wondered who was more "cruel and inhuman"--those who accept gays even though they are so unhappy or "those who practiced Old Testament capital punishment" on gays...
...year. At Enron's behest, an Andersen partner considered "too rule oriented" was taken off the account. But the head of the Andersen audit team based inside the Enron building, David Duncan, endured. He was privy to board meetings, conference calls and paper trails as Enron's web of deceit began to unravel--dragging Andersen down too. He's now the government's key witness in its obstruction-of-justice case against his former employer. And he's sure to have fresh insights into the behavior of his onetime client...