Word: distortive
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...make good of speculation. It takes a kind of tact to dare to go far enough but not so far that you grossly distort what you already have...
...Italian agritourism spots last year, a 20% increase over 2002. It's hard to put a Continentwide figure on the "agritourism" trend, but it's clearly on the rise. And the European Union wants this sector to grow further. Even as it cuts back on wasteful agricultural subsidies that distort prices, the E.U. is proposing to spend €13 billion a year on rural development starting in 2007, with much of that money going to encourage farmers to diversify into agritourism and other businesses. For Europe's farmers, rural chic is more than just a vacation...
...Three Columns Gallery, this translates to bright strips of industrial colored tape arranged in fluid rainbows over and around the space’s surfaces. Carefully placed pipes serve to both anchor the striations and further contour and distort by geometric displacement...
...Three Columns Gallery, this translates to bright strips of industrial colored tape arranged in fluid rainbows over and around the space’s surfaces. Carefully placed pipes serve to both anchor the striations and further contour and distort by geometric displacement...
...firms have agreed to stop paying bribes to win contracts. At the Davos World Economic Forum, the firms - including Hochtief of Germany, Swiss-based ABB and Skanska of Sweden - unveiled a set of principles aimed at eliminating bribery, contending that businesses themselves are hurt by rampant payoffs because they distort competition. "There is significant corruption in the industry," Alan Boeckmann, chief executive of U.S. construction giant Fluor, tells TIME. Some big players, including Bechtel and Halliburton - which last week fired two employees for allegedly taking $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor - declined to participate, but with an accord...