IF you take a word for a perfectly ordinary activity and stick "quantum" in front of it, you get something that sounds mysterious and powerful -- or perhaps bogus.
It is a stunning shift from Copenhagen that 190 nations covering 90% of current carbon emissions have now submitted their national emission reduction pledges - some shockingly ambitious, some limp and lame, a few perhaps bogus - but the expectation of climate action is now global, not just confined to the US, the EU and Japan.
In other words, the argument that C.E.O.'s will leave if they aren't compensated well, perhaps even lavishly, is bogus.
In the mid-1920's, however, black jazz pianists came up with a percussive style of blues, marked by a heavy rhythmic bass in quadruple time that they called boogie-woogie (perhaps based on the West African bogi-bogi, "to dance"), and the reduplication may have ameliorated the slur.
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Hospitals in Los Angeles and Orange Counties are accused of submitting bogus bills for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of homeless patients recruited from downtown's Skid Row.
In July, a High Court judge became aghast after learning that there were dozens -- and perhaps hundreds -- of such cases of bogus mortality.
First, and perhaps most importantly, the State of Texas has filed a bogus complaint; it reads more like a factually inaccurate press release than a legal document.
Perhaps it was an ineffective laboratory methodology; perhaps the pipeline was truly bogus.
Perhaps most disconcertingly, Pompeo has downplayed the costs of bombing Iran, hyped bogus "secret side deals" in order to discredit the accord and engaged in public political stunts harmful to U.S. diplomatic efforts.
Other times, bogus patents live on in limbo, unchallenged and unasserted, impressing no one except, perhaps, investors who hope for a fat portfolio of intellectual property.
