Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Gary Hart faced the inevitable question for the first time last week, it was uttered by a fresh-faced New Hampshire high school student. "Do you think politicians have the right to deliberately mislead the public?" asked Garth Conrad. "No, I do not think they have the right," Hart began, haltingly, as the cameras rolled. "But on the other hand, the public does not have a right to know everything about everybody's personal and private life...
Michaelson added that the posters displayed "either ignorance of what an alder does or an attempt to mislead the Yale community into thinking that she will have influence in areas in which an alder has no authority...
...Shultz's main adversaries in what he called a "battle royal" were the late Director of Central Intelligence William Casey and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. They had helped spawn the ill-fated bargaining with Iran, and when it became public, Shultz charged, they continued to mislead Reagan and tried to use the Great Communicator's skills to "bail them out" of their folly...
Lying to Congress. McFarlane, North and Poindexter have admitted that they chose to mislead Congress in letters and statements about their activities in support of the contras. Although North was not under oath when he gave false testimony, all three men could be charged with making false statements to a Government agency...
...that easy, of course. The criminal evidence is inconclusive, and may have been planted with the intent to mislead. Within the agencies he must rely on to aid the investigation, Rusty finds some people who are not Horgan's (or his) friends and who seem disinclined to hurry. And Rusty has an emotional tie to this case that he cannot reveal to any of his fellow professionals. Some months earlier, he had risked his career and his marriage of 17 years on a passionate affair with the murder victim. After a month or so, she jilted him and took...