Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often exaggerated figures are used deliberately to mislead, raise money or advance an agenda. "Many statistics are generated by people who have a vested interest," notes journalist Cynthia Crossen, who is writing a book on how numbers are manipulated. The American Cancer Society has said 1 in 8 or 9 U.S. women will develop breast cancer, though the frightening statistic is based on women having an unrealistically long life-span. Environmental organizations tend to present the most alarming scenarios to pump up the threat of global warming. Hard-line politicians and gun lobbyists frequently cite figures creating the impression that...
Locke said that the ultimate motive of the amendment's opponents is to legalize marriage between gays, lesbians and bisexuals, and they should not mislead the public by saying they only desire equal rights...
...Robert Gallo, of the National Cancer Institute, really isolate the AIDS virus in 1984, as he claims? Or did he culture a virus found by French researchers and then mislead the scientific community? A National Institutes of Health panel ruled last year that there were no ethical problems. Now a Health and Human Services report disagrees. It says Gallo didn't steal the virus. But a single sentence in his 1984 paper implying that no one could yet grow the French virus was ruled to be deliberately false and thus scientific misconduct. Gallo calls the report "incompetent...
...falls into line with the director's narrow vision of the work. As a group they lack depth. The play begins with a scene between the father James Tyrone (Jack Aranson) and the mother Mary Cavan Tyrone (Patricia Conolly). The actors' forced voices and exaggerated facial expressions at first mislead the audience into thinking that they are watching a high-society comedy or drama instead of anything resembling O'Neill...
...driving force behind U.S. foreign policy during the 1970s, Henry A. Kissinger '50 mislead the American public and his superiors in government, the author of his best-selling biography said last night...