Word: distorts
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...lower one for capital gains -- would do little more than restore the incentive to concoct schemes to convert the former to the latter. We don't need more tax lawyers and tax-driven strategies to compete in the world marketplace; we need a simple tax system that doesn't distort economic decisions...
...University of California, Berkeley, marched against the Viet Nam War while working on the staff of the Wall Street Journal. Defending his activities in a 1970 Journal op-ed piece, MacDougall wrote, "A well-trained reporter with pride in his craft won't allow his beliefs to distort his stories, any more than a Republican surgeon will botch an appendectomy on a Democrat...
...while in power as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr. Bhutto himself engaged in massive electoral fraud and political repression in the mid-70s, the accounts of which are widely known. In claiming to uphold Harvard's motto "Veritas", the Latin for truth, Ms. Bhutto has an obligation not to distort history. Shah M. Ashquzzaman
...should we be censured? Because someonehappened to say that the '50s were carefree?" saidWeissbecker. "You could easily pick any period inhistory and distort it in this...
Many economists have been staring through a veil of mathematics that can further distort what they see. "Economics research has become more a game of chess than a search for understanding reality," says economist David Colander of Middlebury College in Vermont. Colander and Arjo Klamer, a visiting professor at the University of Iowa, surveyed more than 200 graduate students at six top economics departments. When the students were asked what it took to advance rapidly in the economics profession, an astonishing 68% said "a thorough knowledge of the economy" was unimportant. At the same time, 57% picked "excellence in mathematics...