Word: mislead
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...Harvard Corporation wishes to continue abetting white rule in South Africa, it should do so without meretricious displays of moral concern and human compassion. Intrinsically worthless projects such as the specious "new initiatives" serve only to soothe the consciences of those who collaborate with tyranny, mislead the uninformed, and prolong the struggle for black liberation...
Critics of affirmative action claim that the statistics mislead. "I think it's debatable whether affirmative action has resulted in any changes that wouldn't have occurred naturally," says EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas. "In the long run, I don't think the results are going to be so positive." There will be no marked improvement in minority hiring, he says, until primary and secondary education is improved for lower-class blacks...
...look at his former boss, who sat 20 feet away. Westmoreland, the plaintiff in a $120 million libel suit against CBS News, has charged that a 1982 documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, falsely accused him of "conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to mislead President Lyndon Johnson about the success of the war of attrition against Communist insurgents. CBS contends that the documentary was true and that much of the program's evidence came from Westmoreland's colleagues...
...that they will be asked to decide specific matters of fact. A "historical inquiry," Leval warned, could last a lifetime. Instead, the focus is on what CBS alleged in its 1982 documentary The Uncounted Enemy: that Westmoreland engaged in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to mislead his superiors, including the President, about the size and scope of enemy troop strength, and thus about the success of his war of attrition...
Doyle scoffs at Councilor Sullivan's assurance. He states convincingly that he had no motive to purposely mislead the Historical Commission. "If you're gonna live in a city," says the Cambridge native, "and do business in an on-going way, you try to do work within the regulation. You don't want to alienate city officials...