Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national backgrounds or intellectual interests of Harvard's donors have the potential to distort the allocation of funds among Harvard's various academic disciplines. Even a persistent pattern of small donations could unfairly benefit one department over another...
...nongovernmental organizations and even some governments are raising some of those issues inside the talks, activists will maintain a steady barrage of protests throughout the week. While headline-grabbing anarchic actions at the fringes - such as the trashing of a McDonald's outlet on Monday - threaten to disrupt and distort the underlying cautionary message being borne by the WTO's naysayers, the very scale of the street protests meant that it was anything but business as usual on Day 1 of the Seattle summit...
...idea of implanting brain stem cells, while not as dramatic as swapping whole brains, also raises intriguing philosophical questions. "Sometimes at seminars when I talk about my work," says Snyder, "somebody will ask me whether the introduction of these stem cells will alter memory." Do the newly generated cells distort or erase old memories? Or will the transplanted stem cells bring with them memories of their upbringing in a Petri dish...
...advent of the company and its competitors may further distort a system skewed in favor of families with money. "It's the kids who need this, who already have 2 1/2 strikes against them, who'll get left behind," says David Breneman, dean of the education school at the University of Virginia. Watson counters that Achieva regularly does pro bono work in poor schools and has a free summer academy in East Palo Alto, a disadvantaged neighborhood. The company also has counseling contracts with seven high schools in low-income San Jose, where Achieva works with hundreds of kids...
...German war against "unfair competition" is Wisconsin-based clothier Lands? End. The charge? That Lands? End?s unlimited money-back guarantee ? inviting consumers to return any of the company?s products, at any time, for any reason ? is illegal under German laws purported to protect consumers from companies that distort their prices with offers of freebies. In this case, says TIME Berlin correspondent Charles Wallace, "an unlimited guarantee is a gift of something of value unconnected to the product. This sort of ?giveaway? is outlawed in Germany because the government claims it clouds price transparency. If you buy a magazine...