Выражение встречается в следующем контексте:Nada I. Raad claimed that the Fairbanks North Star

Borough School District discriminated and unlawfully retaliated

against her by not hiring her for any of thirty-one teaching

positions. The Alaska State Commission for Human Rights

dismissed her discrimination complaint. Raad appeals a superior

court decision affirming the commission's dismissal. Because

there was some evidence that the explanations offered by the

school district for not hiring Raad were pretextual, and because

it is not clear from the record whether the commission adequately

considered that evidence, we reverse and remand.

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The Cycle
Pretextual agreement
Author: Celeste Altus
In the midst of this HP leak investigation drama, with board members and lawyers pleading the fifth before Congress, comes the question of the word “pretexting.” Have we added a word to the English language? Mirriam Webster doesn’t list it, but does show pretaxing, pretyping, prattling, portering, predating and partaking - all of which HP may have done as well.
Pretexting, in the case of the HP, means when private detectives gathered people’s personal information and then lied, pretending to be them to get access to their phone records. Isn’t that called fraud? Misrepresentation? Is there a new crime on the books here in California called “pretexting?”
Maybe I’ll ask Bill Lockyer, attorney general of the state, who’s looking in to criminal charges against the ineffective HP super-secret spy team.
Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute hates the word pretexting and asks journalists to stop repeating it.
Filed under: Vendors, Crisis Communications, Miscellaneous

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