Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Sayles' Eight Men Out, Hollywood's newest entry in the baseball-movie line-up, however, tells a different story. To Sayles, the national pastime is the purest religion in the world. And when certain people distort this religion, America's greatest sport loses its innocence...
...Schwartz, chief of staff in the state's office of Human Resources, warned that the ruling could distort the decisionmaking process...
...amassing money as the '70s were overbearing about running up the sexual score. Greed, he concludes, "is the cleanest of vices, the one most easily and publicly rebuked by reality." His good book suggests otherwise. Its lively pages testify to the tendency of greed (or any other vice) to distort reality and ensure that those in its grip will keep coming back for more...
...fact, correcting for inflation, real wage increases may have been growing. My point, though, is that Harvard's anti-union crusaders engaged in an obvious attempt to distort the figures they chose to use. I have worked as an economics journalist, have edited tests in statistics and social sciences, and have taught graphing in math classes; I can't recall ever having seen a chronologically backward graph before--and certainly not one which was also titled chronologically forward...
Things were going perfectly well until Lamont became infected, some time around the beginning of reading period, with that annoying bacterium--genus Garrulous Cretini. The biology of these bugs is unique: they distort what they see into what they want...