Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...published what it claims are "direct quotations" from what I said. Some are; some are not. Those that are not distort what I said so drastically I am forced to conclude the distortion was deliberate...
...press should be excluded completely. They distort everything we do," Carl D. Offner 1G said. "We can make our position well known by ourselves...
...businessmen, high rates distort decisions about how to invest, how to organize a company, how to reward employees. Companies in need of capital get a richer federal tax break when they issue bonds instead of stocks; they can deduct the interest on bonds from their taxable income, but dividends on stocks must be paid out of after-tax profits. This fact has stimulated the growth of conglomerate mergers, which the Government is now vigorously attacking (see following story). It is fairly cheap and easy for one company to finance the takeover of another by issuing interest-bearing securities of dubious...
...they did not intend for Jensen's article to be used in this way. For in addition to superiority in performing conceptual cluster tricks on test sheets, the hard line segregationist is also vastly superior in his ability to bury qualifying phrases and demurrers and in his ability to distort and slant facts and batter his undereducated clientele into a complete state of hysteria where race is concerned...
John Hanify '71, a member of the HUC, called the proposal "completely out of the context of the current discussion." Hanify said, "The HUC, HPC, RUS, and SFAC are now discussing the issue of student representation in a much wider perspective. Particular proposals simply distort the issue...