Word: misleads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasoned arguments that should be stated before hundreds of thousands of young Americans are sent to risk their lives--not to mention the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis oppressed by Saddam Hussein--we have heard from Washington only cynical arguments designed to blind and mislead...
...greater interest than a test pattern. To top it off, such commercials have to include a disclaimer warning potential customers that they shouldn't be picking attorneys through TV ads in the first place. The Florida Bar Association, which developed the rules, says the dial- a-lawyer ads mislead consumers and influence juries by creating the impression that personal-injury cases are motivated by greed...
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...