Word: skew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What may skew the poll's results is the fact that two-thirds of all Swedish couples have lived together before marriage; among the young, the level is almost 90%. (Although there are no reliable figures, the U.S. percentage is believed to be considerably lower.) Thus Swedes who do not share the same roof before tying the knot are more conservative than the rest of the society and may be more dedicated to preserving even a shaky marriage. Says Swedish % Demographer Erland Hofsten: "It would be dangerous to use a study like this in an ongoing debate...
...There is the onus that the guide is funded bythe faculty. That doesn't skew what we put in, butsometimes we have to be careful about what wesay," David said...
...Sadly, in recent years we've fallen far short of the ideal of America," Hart said. "We've let personal greed replace a sense of social justice and equity and the national good. We've let right-wing ideology skew this nation's basic priorities. We've increasingly let narrow special interests finance our campaigns and control our political process...
...selling arms to Iran since 1981. Had he known about the sales, McFarlane says, he would have changed his opinion about the U.S. approach to Iran. The Administration proceeded with the Iran initiative despite warnings from Secretary of State George Shultz that using Israel as an intermediary "could seriously skew our own perception and analysis of the Iranian scene...
Money can can skew democracy. The ideal behind the one-man, one-vote credo--that every citizen should have an equal input--falls in the face of interests which are able to manipulate candidates through large make-or-break contributions...