Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statement has not satisfied the intelligence agency, which took the unprecedented step of filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. The CIA charged that ABC violated the FCC's Fairness Doctrine by broadcasting "outlandish statements" in "reckless disregard for the truth." (The fairness regulation requires that broadcasters "afford reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints.") The CIA took the unusual action because the Supreme Court has indicated that federal agencies cannot sue news organizations for libel. In its complaint the CIA asked that the FCC order ABC to retract "all false allegations," and that it consider...
While any numbers of Crimson staff members will go--and have gone-to outlandish lengths to prognosticate publicity, cajoling a real public figure into picking the winner and score of four to eight Ivy League football games can take some persuadings...
...Democratic primary. In Texas a voter must vote once on Saturday morning and once more in the evening to have his vote count for local delegates, who will then be mysteriously manipulated up the ladder of layered caucuses for a final choice. One could go on to more outlandish and contradictory rules, laws, regulations. This unworkable system leaves both the parties and the candidates prey to local and hard-bitten pressure groups, from the National Rifle Association to the Sierra Club, from the antiabortion zealots to the equally tough leaders of the women's movement...
...Limb, would become a bestseller; that a revamped version of her nightclub act would score a hit on Broadway. Anything can look possible to a woman who once danced an entire ballet on a broken ankle. But that almost greedy welter of ambitions might have seemed outlandish if it had been voiced in public by an actress whose early glory had faded in bad films and a scattershot career and who had said that politics or travel or a search for self-awareness meant as much to her as performing...
...year-old Bedford, N.Y., woman was a victim of an increasingly common scam: telephone credit card fraud. Last week such cases seemed to grow larger and more outlandish by the day. Philip Rubin, 71, of Boca Raton, Fla., received a statement demanding $176,983. Said he: "I was more than a little surprised." Even that was topped by a bill presented to the Michigan Association of Governmental Employees for calls charged to its new, but not yet distributed, credit cards. It came...