And just as paperwork distracts from real policing, targets distort it.
'" Even now, as in his movies, Mr. Allen nurses the notion that the certainty of death makes life a cruel joke: "We all know the same truth and our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Not only does it replace actual learning with crude competition and distort incentives, it hinders all sorts of other reforms such as creating real autonomy for teachers or giving families actual choices.
If you perform a specialized function within your office, you can distort the time it takes to get it done.
The civilized world should exert itself to support moderate clerics, defend them and provide them with platforms to protect their religion from extremists who want to distort and hijack it.
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Regardless of how insignificant Norway is as a world player, it could distort the Western European perception of reality in South America in the same way it has done in the Middle East.
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It starts to distort the value of evidence and therefore I think it could, and probably does, devalue evidence.
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It can distort the allocation of resources by encouraging reckless spending, for example.
Many rivals are annoyed at governments helping to keep bankrupt national carriers going in some form or another, because it can distort competition.
Meg Cadoux Hirshberg knows all about the ugly underbelly of entrepreneurial success: how it can distort and badly stress relationships and family life.
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Tory MPs are also concerned about the arrangement, fearing it could distort turnout in the referendum as there will be no other elections in some areas of England and residents will have less incentive to take part.
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By-elections with low turnouts can often exaggerate and distort the picture - and it is dangerous to read too much into them.
It would seem that if it does not distort the market he might want to sell the shares that will represent his walking around money for the next year or two.
"The problem is if you isolate, as this report did, one particular element of that contract, it seems to distort the cost to the taxpayer without recognising the changes that have occurred in recent times, " he said.
Bernanke has admitted the Fed may distort markets, particularly Treasuries where it is by and far the largest player.
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When a big bonus plan did take hold, the authors contend, it did more to distort incentives than to help HP advance.
It's much different from the mirrors you can purchase at an auto parts store and adhere to the side-view mirror because it doesn't distort images.
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And so Goldberg's article, like several that preceded it, is an attempt to distort Obama's record and deflect responsibility for that record onto Netanyahu.
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It is our behaviour and reactions that distort the image of Islam.
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It promises to reduce the measures that most distort trade and to put a cap on direct payments to producers.
Furthermore, the subsidy that is the FDIC is paid for by the big players, and it allows marginal players into the field that distort lending more broadly given their explicit backing.
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All Farrell did was twist and distort any discussion whatsoever from a scientific context and perverted it to be about religion, which is a total misrepresentation of ID Theory and its scientific predictions.
However laudable that aim, using it to determine vice-chancellors' pay might distort admissions decisions.
If money is a ubiquitous economic factor, then it follows that distortion of money value must necessarily distort everything in the economy.
Depending on how bad the pitting is, polishing will probably improve how the windshield looks, but uneven work can distort the glass and hamper your vision as you look through it.
These subsidies distort priorities, which helps explain why California votes to spend money it doesn't have for a high-speed rail it can't afford.
It is the business of posters to simplify and thus distort.
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It is unnatural to have interest rates close to zero and to distort the yield curve by pegging longer-run bond prices at artificially high levels and suppressing yields.
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