Word: misleading
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...peripheral way. Smith's statement that "the Harvard Corporation takes the ACSR very seriously and leans heavily on it for advice" is utterly ridiculous. To support this statement, Smith is forced to ignore some funamental facts about the composition and bias of the ACSR, as well as to mislead the reader in discussing the record of Harvard Corporation/ACSR agreement on shareholder resolutions...
GSAS administrators said this week they are investigating the students' charge, but maintained that they believe Popko's chores are essentially secretarial and that the University did not mislead job applicants...
...that. That's going to require some additional study, and I don't want to be flip about it. I don't want to mislead anyone, but the work on it is well under way, and between now and Jan. 20 a lot of work will have been done with advisers, obviously, but also with people like Senator Russell Long and Congressman Al Ullman [respectively, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee]. I would guess that it would take several months of next year before we could come forward...
About selling. I don't know what Tom and Dennis did. I know that I paid attention to what people were saying to me. And I spent plenty of time talking to them about the "problems" they brought up to me. I didn't coerce or mislead or manipulate anybody. I had my sales talk memorized just like anyone else and used it as a tool: When someone appeared interested in the books after a minute or two of talking with them, I used those parts of the talk that related to what they seemed interested in. If they didn...
...figures may mislead, for behind them is another story: frustrating hassles with admissions officials over budgets, a questionable degree of commitment by Harvard, and a need for reform of the entire recruitment process. The treatment of these problems may well determine whether the high number of Chicanos in the class is part of a trend or little more than an aberration...