Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Walters allege that Harvard attempted to mislead the zoning board into premitting the expansion by trying to conceal the fact that it constituted a height increase...
...into Virginia's Republican Senate nomination contest with an uncharacteristic political attack against a fellow Republican. Complaining that he was "getting pretty steamed" over what he claimed were false Iran-contra statements made by candidate Oliver North, Reagan fumed, "I never instructed him or anyone in my Administration to mislead Congress on Iran-contra matters and the private meetings he said he had with me just didn't happen...
Lest you be mislead into thinking I'm going to whimper about the temperature, let me assure you that it's not the weather I'm talking about. Although the excess of snow may still be my most popular gripe and though my New England born neighbors tire of hearing me extol the virtues of the Golden State's perpetual spring, after two long winters I have almost grown accustomed to the idea that not all of my facial accoutrements will survive Harvard intact...
TRYING TO MISLEAD REGULATORS? Rose Law Firm, in which Hillary Clinton was a partner, represented Madison Guaranty for a retainer of $2,000 a month, and in 1985 Mrs. Clinton presented to a regulator appointed by her husband a plan for a sale of preferred stock to shore up the S&L's finances. In support of that petition, Richard Massey, another member of the Rose firm, wrote two letters. One, in June, acknowledged inferentially that Madison did not meet federally mandated cash requirements but cheerily asserted that "the applicant anticipates that no deficiency will exist in the near future...
...gangster world only provides a colorful background for the characters. I'm more interested in bringing out the spirit of the characters not the background. I'm not interested in the gangsters at all. I hope the audience can see that. I don't want to mislead the audience with all the violence...