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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the procedure remains an expensive long shot, which fails perhaps 85% of the time. This week the House Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities and Energy will hold hearings to investigate growing complaints that many heavily promoted IVF clinics misrepresent their success rates. The panel's chairman, Oregon Democrat Ron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trying To Fool the Infertile | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Yes, Harvard can do pretty much as it wants--misrepresent itself to prospective applicants and the world at large, engage in utter hypocrisy, support racist terrorist regimes, and keep its faculty segregated--and still be protected by 350 years of Ivy tradition. Harvard can also take the moral stands its...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: Harvard, to Thine Own Self Be True | 11/9/1988 | See Source »

The rabbis misrepresent, distort and selectively omit important pieces of the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian picture. Namely, they claim that Palestinians have refused to negotiate with Israel and that they are committeed to the total destruction of Israel. According to them, these are "known facts" about Palestinians.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Rubin admits, solving the undercount problem involves more than just locating lazy census respondents. He says that the Department of Commerce realizes it misses those people who intentionally misrepresent the number of people in their households on their reports, as well as those who do not mail in any...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Working Towards a Sensible Census | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

Instead, Forman has decided to misrepresent me and pit me against an organization to which I am very dedicated--Citystep--to forward his own bias. This action has not only seriously jeopardized my relationship with the organization and my peers, but proven once again how wary one must be in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Re: CITYSTEP on the Mainstage | 1/8/1988 | See Source »

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