Word: distortive
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...initial shock, the death of basketball star Reggie Lewis last week seemed a grim parable of the seductive power of professional sports -- of an athlete so devoted to a game and its rewards that he would distort medical truth in order to keep playing. It also seemed an object lesson in the relativity of medical truth, and in the perplexities -- perhaps even the questionable ethics -- of equally eminent specialists making highly public, completely contradictory diagnoses. The details that emerged in the days after Lewis died, however, suggested a medical and emotional situation that was both more complicated and more subtle...
...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...