Word: distorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impetus behind the consumption-tax movement is this year's projected federal budget deficit of $210 billion, which could distort and cripple the economic recovery by forcing up interest rates. Since serious spending reductions do not seem possible in the present political climate, the only alternative is the collection of more tax revenues. Economists, though, are afraid that higher income taxes would discourage savings and investment even more. Says Mark Bloomfield, executive director of the American Council for Capital Formation, a Washington tax-lobbying group: "The income tax has reached its limit in raising revenue productively...
...reporters? Certainly, in matters as urgent as wars, no one wants impressionistic sketches or first-person pleas for conciliation, but it may be that pure objectivity is sought less than simple completeness, a good eye and ear for detail. People often have a hard time dealing with facts that distort their presumptions, but that is what they ask of their messengers: tell everything. The difficulty in war reporting is that no one, on any side, wants everything told. Everything includes cowardice, dishonor, the breaking of codes. He who tells everything represents a greater menace than the opponent's weaponry...
...college musician, she says, you realize that there are "a lot of experiences out there that are outside of school a lot of poverty and a lot of dead end careers. "She is particularly concerned with improving face relations and advancing the cause of feminism Sexism. Rodriguez says, can distort even an artist's public image "It Prince's going to sing about all of these sex topics, people think he's being risque and that's cute," she says. But it Wendy O. Williams, lead singer for the Plasmatics, flaunts her sexuality on stage. Rodriguez says, she is seen...
...after Fox and other Ad Board members expressed concerns that a straight simulation might further distort student perceptions, council and Ad Board representatives agreed to an open discussion format similar to a council-sponsored forum on the Core Curriculum attended by top officials last month...
...works are deceptively simple, accomplishments theoretically available to any shutterbug with a decent camera. Yet his artistry lies precisely in this mistaken impression. His chief contribution to photography was the absolute clarity of his vision. He never fell back on gimmickry, never allowed ingenuity or cleverness to distort his focus. He looked steadily at people, places and things and allowed them to speak to the eyes of others. If his images seem familiar now, that is because Stieglitz taught this century to see them. -By Paul Gray