Word: misinform
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Chief Petty Officer Gary Fullerton, who works in the Cambridge naval recruiting office, said yesterday, "We are willing to work with the school and the students. We don't intend to misinform, and we're more than happy to stand corrected." Fullerton said the resolution "is as fair an agreement as could...
Shmuel Harlap's letter (Jan. 24) conveys a completely distorted view of the political atmosphere in Israel. Either Mr. Harlap is misinformed or he wishes to misinform the Harvard community about popular sentiments in Israel. His views represent neither the majority view in Israel, nor the views of the average Labour voter, but merely the hopes of those on the far left. He claims that the shift of six or so seats from Labour to Likud in the last election is "due to Golda's continuation as Labour's No. 1 rather than because the Israeli voter has shifted...
...point: they are not my people. I don't want my men to commit My Lai massacres, my generals to conduct unauthorized bombing raids, my pilots to bomb dikes against orders. I don't want my President to let his people wiretap, sabotage the opposition and misinform the public on his behalf. I don't want the traditional warm human values of the American ideal subverted by cold corporations...
...there is no evidence that it has caused cancer in women. "There's a lot of funny business behind all this," she said, referring to the recent Senate hearings on the Pill. "People are making a lot of charges without evidence. All this is only going to misinform women." The result? Dr. Rice-Wray pessimistically predicts that "many women are going to stop taking the Pill, and get abortions and die. Or they will have a lot of unwanted children...
...debate with Humphrey is blunted. It is easier to differentiate them by their style. Kennedy's is tense, urgent, gritty. When the crowds are not attempting to steal his clothing, he will often take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves before talking. He shoots statistics that occasionally misinform but more often impress. His gestures jab and chop; sometimes his hands and lips betray in little movements the taut nerves within...