Word: distorts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Family show, the tube's quintessential boob, who each week shrivels bigotry with laughter. Yet to the editors of Focus, the Teamsters' official newsletter, Archie, like the anti-hero of the movie Joe, is just another example of how TV and the press distort the image of the working man. In a recent issue, an editorial thunders: "For some reason, the writers of those shows decided the average worker is a dingbat-fat, more than a little dumb, a committed racist and most of all, very comical." One consequence is that "most of the folks who design...
...declined because total tax collections, while still smaller than in other countries, have risen as a percentage of G.N.P. The reason, of course, has been the fast rise in state, local and Social Security taxes. The main achievement of the federal income tax cuts has been to distort the tax system by restricting the role of a levy that is effective and generally fair, and throwing a greater burden on taxes that are neither...
...STATE the matter another way, the standards of teaching and of government service in the Washington of the 1970's are really quite antithetical. Without a fundamental overhaul in the way officials debate issues and make decisions, while those in government are obliged to lie and distort to each other as frequently as their government lies and distorts to its public, scholars entering government will continue to make real compromises on principle if their work has not already departed from the norms of academic interchange. And as in the case of Huntington's discussion of urbanization, their published writings will...
...record library, run to the coffin, and check the records we had brought. But after finding the record I couldn't just throw it on. Instead, the record had to be pre-checked for scratches and the volume it should be played so that it wouldn't distort. The volume, or level, is checked by playing the record on a sound system separate from the one that is doing the broadcasting. Unfortunately I could hear both systems at the same time and things became very confusing--at times they were chaotic...
...issuance of statements that distort or misrepresent Professor Herrnstein's views...