Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam was, and is, too elusive to kill. During the Gulf War he stayed off the radio and telephone to avoid being pinpointed by signal intercepts, and he dispatched his orders and speeches on tape. Even now he moves two doubles around to mislead potential assassins. Intelligence sources tell TIME that Saddam has his bodyguards pick six homes where he might sleep. At the last minute he chooses his resting place, making sure it's never the same spot two nights in a row. Sometimes he spends the night in a well-guarded van pulled into the bushes...
...Magazine technicians "perhaps reconstructed too much," Newsweek spokeswoman Karen Wheeler said of the Topol's touch. "But it was not done to mislead the public or to do any inappropriate dental work." Okay, but will Newsweek be there when all the little McCaugheys need braces...
...been raised on inspiring stories of educational localism--of parents and teachers in modest, out-of-the-way places who somehow, through spirit and hard work, maintain schools whose graduates can perform in a world economy. These stories are true, but they mislead somewhat: American education is not quite so decentralized as it looks...
...their allegations that we ignored complaints, those are patently false," Cohen said. "We certainly had no intention to mislead anyone. Kaplan's software just doesn't sell enough to be competitive with ours...
...Washington facts sometimes tend to mislead. All the facts sometimes tend to mislead absolutely." This play on Lord Acton's pontification about the corrupting effects of power appeared 24 years ago in Ward Just's The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert. Since then, Just has published more than a dozen works of political fiction that have done what journalism rarely accomplishes: dramatize the work of government through complex characters whose heavy responsibilities defy easy moralizing...