In 2009, the FBI reported 71, 000 instances of people lying on their background checks to buy guns.
These are still very high numbers with real people lying behind the statistics, but it paints perhaps not such a stark picture.
One shopkeeper said he heard a loud bang and came out and saw the bus-stop decimated and people lying injured on the road.
On the weekend, you will find throngs of people lying on the grass, street dancers breaking down to boombox tunes and soapbox orators ranting.
Many joined refugee camps, but those must be full, because I see lots of people lying on the roads, people for whom there's no accommodation or help.
In the study, Rankin and her colleagues made use of The Awareness of Social Inference Test, or TASIT, which uses videotaped subtle-as-a-sledgehammer scenarios of people lying or being sarcastic.
Peterson said auditors like Warren basically were hired to find the bad apples in the barrel and pull them out: borrowers with payments they couldn't afford, houses with inflated appraisals, people lying about their income.
This is as good as any in determining which of two people is lying about a police shootout.
In addition, he points out that many households will apply the coupons to "basement TVs, " extra televisions that people have lying around the house.
Turns out people enjoy lying about their health on the Internet.
"There are a lot of people still lying, " Willerton said, naming former Armstrong consultant Dr. Michele Ferrari, and Johan Bruyneel, the onetime director of Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team.
Most people are buried lying down, except in the Cipreses del Bosque graveyard in Mexico, where it is traditional to bury them standing up.
When you succeed through cheating and lying, people might not find out right away, but they find out eventually.
Of course, users will need to integrate an additional cable into their setup, but plenty of people will have spares lying around at home.
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Conduct disorder is marked by fairly serious behavior problems, like breaking rules for no clear reason, harming other people or animals, lying, not attending school, running away, and vandalizing property, according to the NIH.
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The footage showed a number of people, apparently injured, lying on the ground.
Mr Mitchell said the increasing numbers of people living in low-lying or famine-prone areas meant the scale of future tragedies would be greater.
"It's terrible business ethics to be lying and then just get people to sign a contract, especially if English isn't their first language, " says Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota.
What remains for certain is that as Lance Armstrong proved to the world this past month, the court of public opinion does not grant remorse to those athletes who believe that they are above the law and through lying, disrespect the very people that are responsible for their success.
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Mr Abdi was found lying close to a crashed blue people carrier just after 01:00 on Sunday.
But lying about real life and real people is apparently not "nothing": Ranked No. 507 on the Forbes World's Richest People list, Winfrey was slammed for her perceived apathy toward the truth-bending.
In New York City, roughly 2, 500 people had booked into emergency storm shelters, less than 4% of the total capacity, nearly 24 hours after Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered an evacuation of 375, 000 people from the city's low-lying areas.
Or Martha Stewart, founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (nyse: MSO - news - people ), who walked the plank for lying to investigators about a stock trade--not the underlying charge of insider trading.
If things have improved today, people can actually get down in to the lower lying areas.
Rizzi was lying on top of two or three people, several more heaped on top of him.
During three days of lying in state, 321, 360 people filed past Churchill's coffin.
In an interview with the Observer, Mr Huhne said people did not have to take price increases "lying down".
In Spain, many people are now fully convinced that their Government is lying, spinning, marketing a message from the Troika.
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With predicted storm surges of up to 11ft, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered 375, 000 people in the city's vulnerable low-lying areas to leave their homes.
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