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Within a year of his hiring in 1986, Loncar had dumped enough high-risk junk, most of it on unsophisticated buyers and senior citizens with fixed incomes, to become one of First Investors' "Top 100" salesmen. "When clients asked if these investments were safe, we were taught to mislead them," says Loncar. "I didn't even know these were junk bonds. I learned more about those funds after I left the company three years later...
...They should stop giving us misleading figures," said Franco Modigliani, who won the Nobel in 1985 for his analysis of savings and financial markets. The government is on the whole no more inefficient than it was six years ago. These shotgun figures are just designed to mislead...
...polls show that Big Green is favored by 46% of voters and opposed by 38%. But public opinion could change after the media campaigns go into full swing. In what critics charge is an attempt to mislead the electorate, Big Green's enemies have given their alternative proposals environmentally conscious-sounding names. The lumber industry's plan, for example, is officially titled the Global Warming and Clear-Cutting Reduction, Wildlife Protection and Reforestation...
...danger from prescription-drug ads is that they can mislead patients into believing they know better than their physician which medicine is best. Says Dr. Israeli Jaffe, a professor at Columbia University: "There's no question that certain physicians are being influenced to issue prescriptions that they would not otherwise write." Many doctors also feel that the cost of nationwide advertising could needlessly inflate the price of treatment...
...made by University officials in the article of March 17. The University's intimate and massive involvement with the city of Cambridge demands close scrutiny of Harvard's development and housing policies by students. tenants and politicians. The officials quoted in the article have termed the committee's conclusions "misleading"; our conclusions "mislead" only insofar as they lead students away from the official and incomplete picture that the Corporation constructs of its position and role in the city...