Word: embellishment
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...will be appealing to the United States and Britain to put more money into peacekeeping,” says Gongloe. “He is a very frank speaker, he doesn’t embellish anything. He [speaks] in a very simple and sincere...
...David Mawson, ceo of the Migration Institute of Australia, a division of which registers migration agents. Complaints against 2% of the 3,300 agents nationwide are upheld each year. "The visa applicant may or may not tell the migration agent everything, and the agents themselves may in some circumstances embellish what they are told," says Mawson. Sometimes, he says, people don't tell their stories in full because they don't trust the migration agent. If an asylum seeker's application is rejected, there is no government funding for appeals to the courts. Applicants must find a lawyer themselves...
...experience, he ain't talking about Lost in Translation. "It has to do with engaging your senses," he says. "It's not only titillating you with the visuals and the design and the cinematography, which we do, but the audio--sound effects and music--are very important, because they embellish the drama our writers create." Like summer studio pictures, the CSIs are largely "made" in postproduction...
...furiously working to sort out the story. Other reporters are now fixated on Bill Burkett, who has become a prime target of speculation as a possible source of the memos. A retired National Guard officer, Burkett has spent years telling the media shifting stories about efforts to purge or embellish Bush's military records. In February, Burkett told TIME, "I don't have the smoking gun, but there was an effort to make [Bush] look better than he was." He has posted angry and sometimes reckless statements on liberal blogs. CBS's Howard denies that Burkett was interviewed...
...arranged what he figured was the next best thing: a stint with the Melbourne Cricket Club, which manages the game's grandest stage. It's a Friday morning and Josh is bent over in the middle of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, using a paint-dipped broom to embellish one of the 50-m arcs for tomorrow night's Brisbane vs. Collingwood game. The stands are empty, the wind is numbing and this is painstaking work - not normally the boy's forte. But Josh is content. This place thrills him. Bruce Church has nearly 60 years on Josh, but his feelings...