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For decades we had a rule for the proper relationship between government expenditures and revenues--or we pretended to have a rule.
This column will not address such issues as pension rights and job security (though it will refer to them from time to time out of guilt--at one point, earlier in my life, I pretended to be a democratic socialist, and I was for a time an actual kibbutznik).
In 1950, King Tribhuvan pretended he was going on a shooting picnic and managed to escape to India.
"In the past we have had bad experiences of how US administrations have pretended to condemn coups in Turkey while they have actively supported them and the juntas," the paper said.
They were all envious, or pretended to be, which was just as gratifying.