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claptrap

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Empty verbiage or nonsense.

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Harry Leslie Smith, an influential activist and supporter of Mr Burnham, has accused her of "anti-worker claptrap" and advised her to join the Tories.

Having discovered the fraud, the channel's Qatari owners had to give him the boot.Not even in Syria do many believe such claptrap.

"Just as more blogs will look like newspapers, more newspapers will have blog-like aspects," says Paul Saffo at the Institute for the Future.Admittedly, this kind of advice can sound like woolly new-age claptrap to newspaper publishers.

AS MUCH claptrap as oil had flowed out of the tanker Prestige before it sank, in two pieces, 245km (about 150 miles) off the coast of north-west Spain this week.

Despite the term's popularity, the theory and evidence behind it are surprisingly thin.In this section Margin calls Teacher, leave them kids alone Surviving, not thriving The audacity of dope Derivatiff Extremely Troubled Scheme Middle-income claptrap ReprintsFirst, the theory.

There was plenty of raw anti-Semitic claptrap coming from Egyptian official media, much of it comparable to Der Sturmer.I don't get this.

But for so many to write revisionist claptrap in a hotel-sponsored competition is rum indeed.

But they must abandon all this comforting claptrap about fear being Mr Bush's friend and start to focus on the much more devastating truth.

"I don't give a shit about the lira," was one of Tricky Dick's choice phrases.For decades politicians had mouthed their support for a strong currency, but Nixon cut through the claptrap.

When he leaves his flat and gets into his car, the video starts playing on a screen in the steering wheel.To ordinary humans this sort of thing must seem like silly or downright frightening marketing claptrap.

If so many people are mathematically challenged, it is hardly surprising that they struggle to deal with the small print of mortgage and insurance contracts.In this section Margin calls Teacher, leave them kids alone Surviving, not thriving The audacity of dope Derivatiff Extremely Troubled Scheme Middle-income claptrap ReprintsThe solution seems obvious: provide more financial education.

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