Word: mislead
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Sophisticated students may ridicule the A and those who seek it. But when they accept a lower mark, perhaps a B-, as minimal for self-respect, they are mislead into believing that B- stands for an important, measurable level of learning...
Thomas F. Stone, president of the Harvard University Employees Association, charged yesterday that AFL organizers are attempting to mislead University employees by claiming victories in jurisdictional elections at the bindery and Department of Athletics...
...charged that the protest "could be a delaying tactic to mislead a lot of people." Stone said that the local had previously agreed to the eligibility of the two individuals whose votes could decide the jurisdictional election...
While the averages are useful tools to Wall Street's professionals, they can mislead amateur investors into buying or selling at the wrong time. Many investors seldom bother to learn how the averages are compiled; nor are they aware of what they really mean. Investors, for example, often talk of a "$6 rise" on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Actually, the Dow-Jones is not a dollar average at all, but a point average. Dow statisticians calculate it by totaling the per-share value of 30 prime industrial stocks (among them: Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel...
During the years of his captivity, his uneasy jailers had moved him from prison to prison to mislead possible rescuers. He was guarded by a cordon of political policemen, policewomen, police dogs and, lately, Russian tanks. During those years, the Communists strove with all their might to destroy the faith of Eastern Europe's 60 million Catholics. As Mindszenty went free, their failure was obvious to the world: the Church of Silence now spoke out with undimmed vigor...