Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...graphic with your story "The Y2K Bug: Do We Still Have to Worry?" [LIVING, Nov. 29] stated that Virgin Atlantic has halted "flights for 24 hours." This could mislead readers into thinking our airline is not flying because we might have Y2K fears. This is as far from the truth as you can get. We at Virgin Atlantic Airways decided many months ago to allow our employees the time off. Our passengers and staff always give us the best advice on how to run the airline, and the millennium is no exception. Both groups told us they want to celebrate...
...intend to mislead you. This was not an out-of-the-way excursion for me. For most of my childhood, I lived a mere pumpkin toss away from the woods that the Headless Horseman and other ghosts are rumored to have haunted. I passed through Sleepy Hollow and its brother town, Tarrytown, all the time. Its 7-11 and Baskin Robbins were perfect spots for midnight snacks. I ran cross-country races in some of the town's back woods. I even took my SAT's at Sleepy Hollow High School. But, through all those years, I was entirely unaware...
...shortfall if they had any hope, near term, that there could be a turn in fortunes. In other words, as bleak as things are, these companies usually take this extraordinary step because they believe things are even darker in the near term, and they don't want to mislead...
...worst thing he did was mislead," the student said. She said she did notice that her student ID card was missing...
...they don't understand how insurers define flood. I'll get to that, and, trust me, Webster would choke on the description. An even bigger problem is that insurance agents have little incentive to write flood coverage. Meanwhile, many agents and local officials are so ill informed that they mislead entire communities into believing that flood protection is impossible...