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The chair was foisted on reluctant faculty by administrators eager to please wealthy donor Kenneth Lipper (a former deputy mayor of New York and, more recently, a co-writer of the screenplay of City Hall ). It took the historians and Jewish-studies professors on the search committee a year and a half to come up with a job description.
But it is quite another thing when it is foisted on an unsuspecting public as fact, when, indeed, it is either pure speculation or a writer's interpretation of the best way to make data fit into the procrustean bed of his theory.
The gambling industry did everything in its power to stop the establishment of this commission two years ago, but Congress and a fervent grassroots anti-gambling group eventually foisted it on the industry.
To me, vulgarity means `bad taste,' whether deliberate (as in the case of Roseanne ) or unintentional (as in the case of crude drawings foisted on us as “art”).
"one of the lamest films [MGM] ever has foisted upon the world" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ) ...
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