Word: mislabel
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...rather liberally and, given conventional definitions, incorrectly. But U.S. lawmakers should think twice about condemning this propagandist political move. The American government, in conducting its “war on terror” is no stranger to semantic sleights of hand, displaying a tendency to label (or mislabel) just as egregiously as the Iranian parliament...
...really a ridiculous enough culture thatwe have to mislabel the floors of our buildings?Are we really that weak?" Kirchhoff asked...
...COORS tell his side of what Conservative Club posters mislabel "The Coors Controversy." We should make sure he realizes that we don't believe anything he says, but we can do it without disrupting the speech itself and without limiting his freedom to move about this campus. We can do it without discouraging future speakers from coming...
Last May, two researchers in a laboratory at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) saw Dr. John R. Darsee, a research fellow in Medicine, deliberately mislabel a set of results in an experiment on the cause of heart attacks in research animals...
FOREIGN TAX CREDITS. These permit a company to deduct from the U.S. taxes due on its foreign income the income taxes that it pays to foreign governments. The aim is laudable: to prevent double taxation. But there is a catch. Many oil-producing countries mislabel part of the royalties that they charge on each barrel of oil as taxes, in order to create a U.S. tax credit for the oil companies. If the oil companies were forced to treat the disguised royalty as part of the cost of doing business-as other companies must-they would be able to deduct...