Word: distortive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highest aides; 2) He had set up his own ominous band of White House investigators, who were so loosely directed that, according to his statement, they used methods of which he did not approve; 3) In his earlier statements about Watergate, he had tried to hide and distort the facts...
Recent and anticipated technical advancements have whisked us to the threshold of an era of rebuilt humans, of makeshift immortality. Transplants and artificial organs may distort distinctions between man and his fellow man, and man and machine. Suspended animation may create real-life Rip van Winkles. Doctors have already agonized over choices of who to let live. While a poor man formerly had the consolation of knowing his employer couldn't "take it with him," expensive innovations may some day permit a wealthy man to live indefinitely...
Besides firms involved with the military, NEAR scrutinizes corporations delivering health care, which Koff claimed now control and distort the system in pursuit on profit...
...damned-if-you-don't situation of its own making which allowed The Crimson all the self-satisfying venting of spleen it could hope for. Yet although personal vendetta may fire some imaginations and make some smoke, this can only get into the eye of critical analysis and distort and even obscure the real uses...
...started with Vice President Agnew's eloquent orations in 1970 about those elitist Eastern radical intellectuals who distort the news. Then Clay T. Whitehead, director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy in the White House, opened up and has yet to quiet down. A recent sample: "Station managers and network officials who fail to act to correct imbalance or consistent bias from the networks--or who acquiesce by silence--can only be considered willing participants, to be held fully accountable by the broadcaster's community at license renewal time...