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  • Contrary to best public interest new rules have been surrepticiously foistered on the public to indemnify big pharma against the possibly enormous harms they have perpetrated against global childhood.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Much of it was cynical teen-pop foistered on "us" by Tin Pan Alley, it's true, but there was ferment in the business, and some very fine music was being created which changed the industry forever -- especially after the success of the Beatles.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • Let me say this: PBS will BECOME history, rather than report on it, unless they fight back against the would-be censors foistered on them by right-wing extremists.

    Archive 2005-05-22 Michael Evans 2005

  • He claims in his current autobiography that he deliberately withdrew from the despised role (foistered on him by an exuberant press) as a generational spokesperson.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • Much of it was cynical teen-pop foistered on "us" by Tin Pan Alley, it's true, but there was ferment in the business, and some very fine music was being created which changed the industry forever -- especially after the success of the Beatles.

    Archive 2005-05-22 Michael Evans 2005

  • He claims in his current autobiography that he deliberately withdrew from the despised role (foistered on him by an exuberant press) as a generational spokesperson.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Michael Evans 2005

  • Let me say this: PBS will BECOME history, rather than report on it, unless they fight back against the would-be censors foistered on them by right-wing extremists.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005

  • I found this quote in an Australian blog: I couldn't rightly say as I haven't attempted to read anything by White since I was 16, at high school, and had his Tree of Man foistered upon me as part of the English wider reading list - I couldn't finish it.

    languagehat.com: ALTERNATE NOBELS. 2005

  • Mr Felgate, who last week warned of bloodshed should current decisions at negotiations be implemented, explained on Monday that "we are warning of the inevitable when a constitution is foistered on a country and a substantial proportion of the population is adamantly opposed to that constitution".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • So it is not true that they brought slavery with them or foistered it on the settlers.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Maritzah 2010

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