What's striking is the way AEI doesn't even resort to the usual practice of concocting misleading numbers; it just flat-out lies about what various other peoples' research, like Robert Gordon's work, actually says.
Chrisemer, who was more interested in concocting musical numbers than in being a virtuoso of the keyboard, did not seem monomaniacally concerned with working on the details of the show — at least compared with people who had spent great chunks of their childhood alone in their room practicing.
The classic form of this argument is known as the "Ticking Time Bomb Scenario", but it's not hard to concoct any number of implausible scenarios in which a large majority would be happy to call for the chap with the electrodes.
Joyce concocted a number of money-making schemes during this period, including an attempt to become a cinema magnate in Dublin.
Tech firms continue to concoct "pro forma" numbers that they trumpet in press releases numbers far more impressive than the bottom-line figures on the 10Ks they file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In a trio for Alice, Billy and Billy's father that reveals, in flashback, the truth about their history, Mr. Martin and Ms. Brickell's ears suddenly turn to tin, as they concoct a histrionic number that sounds more like a standard-issue show tune than anything else in the musical.
The I.N.S.'s failure to coordinate with the Social Security Administration, The Times' Robert Pear reports, is still allowing tens of thousands of foreigners to secure illegal Social Security numbers and concoct the fake identities that proved so useful to some of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
The FCC developed a huge computer model to concoct all the necessary numbers.
He was making Olga's Shell Soup, a bouillon-and-tomato-paste number concocted by his childhood nanny, a Mexican native who was named after a Swedish character in a telenovela.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) slammed President Donald Trump's tweet earlier in the day, which falsely claimed the death toll of 3,000 in last year's Puerto Rico hurricane was a fake number concocted by the Democrats, calling it "incredibly disheartening". .
Or, maybe, this explosion of resistance from the left is simply an elaborate ruse, concocted by a number of activists with both willing and unwitting co-conspirators, to push some of the less reactionary Republicans to grab for this bill, flawed as it may be, because the eventual bill will be much less to their liking?
