Most lies are small and amount to fudging the truth to build fame and fortune.
After all the papering over, the fudging and the hopes that defied experience comes the reckoning.
Bill Clinton once notoriously admitted to engaging in a practice he called "fudging" the facts.
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This elevated view of the CBO is wrong, not because the CBO is partisan or not immune to fudging.
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Barton Shaw, vice president of Atlanta Vending, knows all about the number fudging.
You can rationalize tax fudging just by taking a look at the 15, 100-page tax code (statute and regulations combined).
How come these "monitors" didn't realize Lehman was fudging and misrepresenting its liquidity?
The article described how schools resort to number-fudging on a regular basis to achieve a high spot in the Top 40.
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But it is hard to imagine he could really be so rash, after a political lifetime of judicious fudging and trimming.
Lying, biases, fudging, and outright dishonesty occurs everywhere and in every business.
But scientists count deaths from any cause to measure drugs, because it prevents fudging of data and takes side effects into account.
After several decades of private insurance, doctors have come to rationalize a little fudging of diagnoses if that helps the patient with his insurance.
Mrs Shelley says she agrees changes need to be made to the public-sector pensions system, but she feels the government may be fudging its figures.
And as to number fudging, there are ways to provide the public with an independent cross-check but there is no perfect predictor of the future.
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These ads are unfair, of course, ignoring as they do Bain Capital's many successful investments, fudging Mr Romney's role and leaving out many mitigating details.
The amount of fudging that goes on depends on the circumstances.
That could produce turbulence in the markets, especially if it seems that Italy or even France might not make it without scandalous fudging of the criteria.
Stock brokers and mutual fund companies will be required to report costs basis information on stocks and mutual funds to investors and the IRS (no fudging your capital gains taxes).
The fudging of the fiscal cliff issue means there will be a few more crises to come in the US, but Friday's employment numbers suggest that the economy is heaving itself back on its feet.
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Now, you might assume that because entrepreneurs have a penchant for breaking rules and thinking about the world in unconventional ways they should have little trouble fudging some of the more superficial aspects of their characters.
It is rooted in a flawed change to the constitution in 2004 that reduced the power of the president but stopped short of turning Ukraine into a parliamentary republic, fudging the responsibilities of president and prime minister.
But for the five million individuals recorded as having been jobless for 27 weeks or longer by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in their August report, this fudging and shortening of gaps is no longer a viable option.
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Of course, lying about your own ID would seem to break with the aforementioned rule, too, so what we're left here is some muddled grey area and Palm apparently being okay with fudging some data to correct what it sees is an injustice.
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