Word: misleader
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...price set by the grant date. Backdating--changing the date to make the stock more profitable--is not illegal, per se, but "spring-loading" (granting options before a market-boosting announcement) and faulty or erroneous reporting can violate civil or even criminal laws because of the potential to mislead shareholders...
Maybe there is an underground gay sex community at Harvard. If there is, though, these homos are not interested in faggots. So when I promised you all the juicy insider details, I may have been misleading you, just as I mislead the men of Craigslist, just as they mislead their girlfriends. A part of me empathizes with them, though given my easy past, I can never really know what it’s like to be truly frightened of coming out. At this point in my life, however, I’m beyond dealing with closet cases. It?...
...Republican congressmen getting ready to leave town to campaign - following a congressional report linking the White House to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and showing dozens more contacts with him than the White House had admitted, and a book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward strongly suggesting the Administration has mislead the public about the Iraq War. The Foley scandal could well be the most damanging of the three. Woodward's book, even with all of its details about Administration infighting and blunders in Iraq, reinforces a notion most Americans already hod, that the war in Iraq isn't going well...
...consumer, the problem with buying a casket is that nobody wants to do so until the need arises--and by then it's simplest to purchase one through the funeral home. Consumer watchdogs say some funeral homes regularly inflate prices on caskets and mislead families into believing they may not shop elsewhere, despite a 1984 ruling by the Federal Trade Commission that explicitly states they may. (A class action was filed in 2005 by the Funeral Consumers Alliance that charged Batesville with conspiring with the big funeral-service chains. Batesville will not comment on pending litigation...
...lower animals. If God was creating humans afresh, Collins asked, "why would he insert a pseudo-gene that has lost its ability to do anything in the same place that it appears in a chimp?" Barring evolution, "you're forced to the conclusion that God was trying to mislead us and test our faith - and I have trouble with that kind of conjecture." (See the top 10 Jesus films of all time...