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He chose a race that may have been unwinnable, and then let himself be portrayed to many voters as an over-educated phony out of touch with ordinary voters -- ironically, a bit the way some Bush supporters now look at Vice President Al Gore.
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"Only the truth about his record will prevent this phony makeover of the nation's most out-of-the-mainstream senator".
Tom Ruprecht's This Would Drive Him Crazy: A Phony Oral History of J.D. Salinger is fall-out-of-your-chair funny.
One time, back in 1955, Moriarty's was busted for having a phony fire hydrant in front of its door, to discourage out-of-towners from parking there.
"I never saw a phony second out of the guy".
Also, phony, disingenuous, out of step with American families and a tax scofflaw to boot, to choose from a long list of criticisms that the Kerry campaign disputed in general and specific.
I myself think that this indigence was the cause of some of his less admirable journalism: he had to cudgel phony opinions out of his weakening brain and frame in order to finance the next bender.
Gone, he said, are the fraudulent card players, the phony "going out of business" sales and the glaziers who offered their business cards to store owners by day after breaking their windows by night.
DealBook Atlanta Man Indicted in Ponzi Scheme | Charles Michael Vaughn has been indicted on charges of fraud, accused of using a phony hedge fund to cheat investors out of as much as $7 million.
Indeed, the police in several countries say that counterfeiters have been even more busy than normal in the past year, passing out phony copies of the expiring national currencies.
A man accused of being a sham investor in the Ferrofluidics Corporation has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle regulators' charges that he helped the company carry out a phony sale of $12 million worth of shares in 1992.
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