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Riedl and other crackpot supply-siders do not represent actual economic theory, either pre - or post-Keynesian – they are just seizing on plausible-sounding arguments to justify policies that benefit big-money interests.
Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing Establishment Embraces Discredited 1930s-Vintage Economic Doctrines 2009
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WHAT: Whatever you would like me to sign (Some exceptions — as a general rule I won't sign a book written by a different author, but I will sign books written by Dan Wells if offered a suitable bribe or plausible-sounding justification.)
Signing Tomorrow! + Alcatraz Sample Chapters mistborn 2009
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The various tribulations faced by the characters are handled thoughtfully, and there's at least a gloss of plausible science - or plausible-sounding science - underpinning it.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009
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Technological progress won't mean abandoning manual labor, writes Paul Krugman: The belief that education is becoming ever more important rests on the plausible-sounding notion that advances in technology increase job opportunities for those who work with information...
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The best we can hope for at that point is some rudimentary understanding of how celestial bodies and systems work, and that the technobabble bears some plausible-sounding relationship to physical reality as we know it.
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The creator of the site offered a crazy but vaguely plausible-sounding until you thought about it for a milisecond, I mean legal theory to explain why it was all totally legal: he claimed that because he was blocking readers from downloading the comics for themselves, it was not an illegal download site but the comics equivalent of a lending library.
Jaime Weinman 2010
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It is a plausible-sounding rationale, but it cloaks an unworthy desire for vengeance.
Jeremy Scahill: What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission? Jeremy Scahill 2010
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Their ability to instantly conjure up plausible-sounding rationalizations, to twist the narrative to make their side sound credible with cherry-picked facts and half-truths, and very important to smear their accusers becomes second nature.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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It is a plausible-sounding rationale, but it cloaks an unworthy desire for vengeance.
Jeremy Scahill: What if Instead of the Nuremberg Trials There Was Only a Truth Commission? 2010
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I give her my mobile number and then just shove a load of plausible-sounding sevens and nines together to construct a fake mobile number for Pippa.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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