Word: distort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ensure that the spies remain honest brokers of intelligence and don't try to distort it for their own ends...
Conservative critics such as Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 have said such programs that link loan repayment to income wrongly distort work effort. Feldstein has also argued that taxpayers should not subsidize students who go to college, saying that students benefit from their choice in the form of high income
Senior Katic Fitta dove for the ball, but it bounced off her glove for the game winning double. The Terriers tacked on six more runs in the inning to distort the score of what had been a very close game...
Kane says premiums based on small group or individual experiences were more easily skewed because a single member who used a significant amount of health insurance in the past could greatly distort the group's health rating...
...high school physics class, you should know that a length of wire with an electric current running through it generates a magnetic field--the stronger the current, the stronger the magnetic field. And if you ever watched Mr. Wizard, you should remember him showing how a magnetic field can distort a television image...