Word: distorts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiasco and Bork's defeat in the Senate have given the President strong incentive to play up the significance of the forthcoming agreement. Add the stock market instability, and the President's last claim to fame is in jeopardy. So Reagan has abandoned his avowed realism in order to distort the agreement's utility...
...Undergraduate Council will not remove the plexiglass that encircles the floor of the Bright Hockey Center before the Elvis Costello concert despite complaints that the four-ft. high barrier will distort the sound in the front rows, council members and University officials said this week...
...they are going to have a concert in Bright, they might as well have decent concert conditions without barriers that distort the sound," said Adam F. Carpenter '90, whose seat is located be hind the plexiglass...
...addition, few people will be affected by the plexiglass because it is only high enough to distort the sound for students in the first three rows, Anderson said. Anderson said he did not know the cost of dismantling all the plexiglass because it has never been tried...
...course, the marketing consultants are going wild. They have the rare opportunity to completely distort the public mindset. In the old days, condoms had rough, manly names, officially and on the street. Guys called them "safes," "johns," and "scumbags;" their trademarks implied conquest and domination: "Ramses" and "Trojans." Some of the later brands got a little wimpy. "Excita," one was called--a name as appropriate for a federal tax form as for a condom...