Word: misleads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of land reform is thrown at us to mislead us." McAward said, adding that farmers need not only land, but credit and a good price for their crops...
Labels are a handy and necessary form of compression. How else does a reader remember whether it is Ethiopia or Somalia that is under Soviet and Cuban domination? But labels can mislead. In his new autobiographical Ways of Escape, Graham Greene writes: "I had an idea before I went to Malaya, an idea picked up from an unsympathetic press, of a group of men, the harsh overseers of great capitalist enterprises, intransigent, unconstructive exploiters of native labor, drinking stengah after stengah in the local club, probably in the Somerset Maugham manner making love to each other's wives...
Finally, whatever pressures the socialist world has applied in El Salvador has been greatly distorted in this country. The State Department dissent paper provides a fascinating picture of the sophisticated campaign orchestrated by the State Department to mislead the American public on what is happening in El Salvador. According to the dissent paper, the State Department has tried to plant in the media two major themes to obscure the reality of the Salvadorean struggle: the "far left versus far right" scheme, and the spectre of Soviet and Cuban power, the first theme, ingenious as it is, has largely failed...
...Office of Management and Budget, insists that traditional econometric models are useless now because they do not measure the explosion of work and savings that will occur when President Reagan cuts taxes. Said Kudlow: "We have a new set of ideas, and a traditional model would merely serve to mislead and confuse the American people...
...Ford-Carter encounters are an example of how this electronic drama can obscure meaning and mislead audiences. Carter at first was awed facing a President. But his grasp of facts and his spiritual armor were enough to restore confidence, while Ford bumbled along and made his startling claim that Poland was not under Soviet dominance. In those swift television rounds, Challenger Carter skillfully danced, jabbed and flicked his facts. Ford, burdened with himself and his office, lost the decision...