Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...plainclothesmen strode last week into Cairo's Metropolitan Hotel, rapped on Correspondent William (Steve) Stevenson's door and gave the Toronto Star's 33-year-old roving newsman 24 hours to get out of Egypt. Also expelled for spreading "falsehoods and fabrications to mislead public opinion": the London Evening Standard's pretty Anne Sharpley, 26, and the London Daily Mail's fortyish Eileen Travis, a U.S. citizen. That made a total of five correspondents sent packing since Egypt seized the Suez Canal...
...announced that he was ending martial law, lifting press censorship, freeing 2,000 political prisoners. He spoke movingly of his own candidacy for President: "You will be asked your opinion of Gamal Abdel Nasser. I want to tell you something. Gamal Abdel Nasser will never deceive or mislead you. I shall work more for the interest of the weak than for the strong...
...these boilings and eruptions on the surface of our political life should not mislead us about the views of the rank and file of both parties and of the general electorate on what should be done and how we should go about it. Although the feuding and the fighting have both their function and their useful consequences, they obscure, as often as they illuminate, the real character of the political alignment in the country at large. For insight into this political development, we must look to what the parties actually do -- the means and measures they support when vested with...