Word: distortive
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...marveling should raise suspicions, however. It's probably not a good idea to try to duplicate the best moment of one's life 40 times, if only because it will cheapen the truly good times. And even as they help open the mind to new experiences, drugs also can distort the reality to which users ineluctably return. Is ecstasy snake oil? And how harmful...
...governor has not said that Russia and China should be enemies; in fact he has said that China is a competitor, and we should reach out to Russia," Bush foreign policy adviser Condoleezza Rice told The New York Times. "It is very much like the vice president to distort [Bush's] record...
...national tradition to be fair - even wishful - about underdogs because of our conviction that democracy depends on the will of the voters and that big money shouldn't distort the process. The media encourage this wishfulness because a good fight attracts an audience. But after Tuesday night, barring a howling scandal or a bus accident, this fair-mindedness simply becomes foolish titillation. The front-loading of the primary system, which squeezes a decisive bunch of primaries into February and early March, plus the dominance of television ads purchased by big money, has turned the stately nomination process into a half...
...hammering away at Bradley's health-care plan, as usual, and Bradley was sneering back at him, employing his recent tactic of responding to Gore attacks by pointing out their theatricality. In these instances, though, Gore didn't sigh or groan while Bradley spoke. And he didn't even distort Bradley's positions. He merely pointed out that Bradley's proposed monthly health-care subsidy, the one that's supposed to replace Medicaid, wouldn't be enough to buy coverage for poor people in either state. So when Bradley gave him that dead-fish look, the former Senator just came...