The latest absurd idea to defend for an ENA graduate is to advocate what financial markets push as a solution for the European crisis while pretending domestically that this is a left wing policy to tackle market pressure on European governments.
But neither party is willing to tell the IRS to cut the nonsense and stop pretending that there is a difference between owning a term loan, a revolving working capital loan, commercial paper or a bond.
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Mayer needs a mentor who can show her that she can be a powerful CEO without pretending that she does not identify with women and moms.
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Sharon Stone goes cold in this botched thiller maybe from the effort of pretending that her character, a beauteous book editor, would fall for the preening young computer wizard played by the vacant-and-proud-of-it William Baldwin.
To pretend that Morocco is perfect would be a mistake, but so would pretending that there has no been significant progress.
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Richter's diary recounts how Elgar told him that there was no thematic link to the variations, but that since they were finished on April 1st, Elgar had resolved to start a wild goose chase by pretending that there was.
David Davis has opined that the UK is no longer a major military power and should stop pretending that it is.
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Last year, three French tourists were given suspended prison sentences for taking photographs that showed them pretending to kiss a statue of Buddha at a temple.
Pretending that this Eurobond offering is not a seminal event will likely reap a potentially horrific whirlwind down the road for this country and its allies.
Today, by pretending that the joint declaration at Annapolis was a big nothing, Olmert and Livni are repeating the maneuver.
And we do a very good job of pretending that it doesn't matter.
There were no paid actors pretending to be a firm in office space that was temporarily used to conduct a ruse.
This racket is so lucrative that there is a market for pretending to be a journalist just to bring in payoff money, a premise the writer Yan Geling played on in her novel, The Banquet Bug.
All she knows is that a few years ago word got around that there was money to be made pretending to read books that were in danger of falling off the bestseller lists.
But pretending that the provisions will only be in place for a year or two makes them appear to be much more affordable than they will turn out to be.
The credibility of balance sheets around the world are dependent upon the outcome of the discussions that take place in Europe over the next two days, not least because pretending that this is just an issue that relates to Greece is now just that i.e. a pretense.
Some of the best moments in the script come when Will toys with a series of psychologists, even pretending to be hypnotized at one point to prove that he's way ahead of their game (he bursts into a chorus of "Afternoon Delight" while supposedly under the spell).
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Gleick has publicly confessed that he contacted The Heartland Institute fraudulently pretending to be a member of the Board of Directors.
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Now that it has sunk in, can we stop pretending that changing the person sitting in the CEO chair is a silver bullet to save a struggling company?
The stretch of road near Harajuku station has been a mecca for youngsters dressing up in 1960s rocker garb and, for a few brief hours each week, pretending that life is not just cram schools, exams and dreary journeys to and from soulless suburbs.
"I think pretending that we could hold all of this and keep it all a secret even if we wanted to ... was probably unrealistic, " Gates said Thursday while visiting the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
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Derbyshire Police launched an investigation in 2009 after several Derby landlords reported that a man had tricked them out of money by pretending to be Danny Kay.
But there's a difference between arguing that you want different measures and pretending those measures don't exist.
Mr Naseer told the jury that, in his conversations that were secretly recorded, he was in fact only pretending to be a terrorist to make himself look big.
He structured his relationship with the pension such that he would earn a little money from the fund through pretending to serve as a fiduciary providing objective advice while he was earning millions from money managers who paid him in return for money management assignments.
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Our correspondent says that in a bizarre twist she did, however, admit to pretending to be related to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
However, she admitted a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice by pretending to police officers, while on bail, that she was someone else with a different date of birth.
He babbled about how he admired the federal agents known as AFIs (the Federal Investigation Agency was a squad created to fight corruption and organized crime), pretending that he thought the narcos were AFIs.
"I don't believe for a second that he's sitting there with his wide eyes and pretending to be incoherent, " Ghawi said.
Inside the mediocre lobby we staked out a position near the numbered boxes, innocuously pretending to screw up our change-of-address forms so that we had to start over again a dozen times.
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