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So much of what politicians say is just hocus-pocus.
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Like so many politicians, he relies on a lot of statistical hocus-pocus.
It is worth going through that study if one wants to read a piece of hocus-pocus research.
How do we undermine these barriers, the barriers of conventional wisdom, of tradition and of hocus-pocus?
There is a great deal of hocus-pocus in any curriculum making.
I do not believe all of this hocus-pocus about the growth in investment.
This is much more important than hocus-pocus international agreements.
Our roads would become full of these mobile warehouses, and neither 'intelligent' traffic management nor any other hocus-pocus would be of any help.
We will end this unscientific, never-ending game of numbers, this hocus-pocus surrounding limit-setting, with the clear cut-off criteria.
Both types of debate are enveloped in exactly the same sort of hocus-pocus.
