Word: slanted
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...faculty members with conservative and/or hawkish views with dire results for some of its intelligence estimates. If one supports the CIA, the explanation is because liberal academics abhor the CIA and cannot be trusted with secrets. It one opposes the agency, the explanation is the CIA's desire to slant its analysis to the right. On balance, however, I believe links in this area between the CIA and the academic community should not be banned although all contacts should be open...
...Restic changed his strategy. He shelved the sprint-out type of attack he had employed in the opening half, and went to play-pass action, using fakes to the backs and short slant passes by Brown in an attempt to rejuvenate the passing game...
...seven-yard sackof Brown by Dartmouth's superb linebacker Jeff Hickey set up a third-and-goalsituation from the 17. Brown play-faked and hit tight end Paul Sablock on a quick slant at the three, who proceeded to piggy-back two Dartmouth defenders into the end zone for the score...
...side. Does every person with the price of a Smith-Corona deserve to be called freelance? The sobering answer: most editors' greatest complaint is that many "writers" don't bother to read a copy of the magazine before submitting articles and wildly miss the publication's slant. So-called freelancers fail to deliver assignments more than 50% of the time and have an awesome record of not meeting deadlines...
...press, the most dangerous effect of corporate domination has been the pretense of objectivity. The belief in an "objective," unbiased, impartial press is radically wrong. In even the most straight-forward reporting there is always a subtle slant, or room for interpretation, and a newspaper will betray its inclinations in a thousand small ways. We hear that the press must be "objective," because it is "powerful" and can influence "partisan" politics. But the press has never lacked power and political influence; only now power is concentrated and therefore more formidable. What the call for "objectivity" boils down...