Defining value in such a narrow way, they argue, obscures the broader benefits of higher education.
Really, though, I think the focus on individual reports probably obscures what is taking place.
Can you see how archetypal thinking obscures reality so that actuality is shaped into mythical fantasy?
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It can lead us towards the same kind of fanboy enthusiasm that obscures reviews of AAA games.
Yet the stress on Mr McCain's compelling biography obscures a no less important feature of his candidacy.
Yet the investments are sometimes split between several different firms and funds, which further obscures Softbank's assets.
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Such talk also obscures a careful look at the reality of what happened Tuesday: a virtual dead heat.
When a painting becomes an icon, a psychological semi-translucent veil is placed over the work that partially obscures it from us.
This obscures only 1% of an optical astronomer's view and is twice as efficient as a mercury lamp.
The urge to pass new laws obscures what can already be done within existing law to remove obstacles.
Creating two categories of mothers pits one against the other, and obscures the way traditional mommy-dividing categories often overlap.
The major 2012 drought obscures the fact that the U.S. has seen a decline in drought over the past century.
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But resorting to blaming CEO pay for low tax rates for companies obscures the bigger pictures and muddles the conversation.
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The alternative is an ever thickening soup of noisy data that obscures information, then ideas, and finally the very sky itself.
Omitting the rest obscures a gradual, rational process that cannot be undone.
This was quite a feat as the intense light from the star normally obscures the subtle visual details necessary to distinguish a planet.
The current depiction of Brazil as a maturing emerging market obscures the reality that from an infrastructure perspective it still resembles a frontier market.
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This bamboozling of the American people obscures the main point: How do we safeguard American lives and respect our freedoms at the same time?
It obscures our vision, it darkens the digital sky, and it makes everything we could and should do with the new web-connected world harder.
This is a perfectly legitimate use of the technology, I guess, but it obscures both the fundamental strengths and the original purposes of each platform.
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The truth - which Argo artfully obscures - is that the cover story was never tested and in some ways proved irrelevant to the escape.
The limitless oil wealth of Saudi Arabia often obscures economic prudence.
The bunker is positioned in a way that obscures the view of the green from the fairway making it harder to make the shot you need.
Moreover, the oil and gas boom obscures the fact that Russia has little it can sell apart from what it can dig out of the ground.
Unfortunately, the physical division of architectural and figurative studies in the exhibition space obscures the way in which these pursuits were in constant dialogue throughout Michelangelo's career.
The prospect of a future powered by the sun and the wind is so appealing that it obscures a less charming fact: coal is going nowhere soon.
The popular perception of bankers as Porsche-driving sociopaths obscures the fact that many of the industry's staff are modestly paid and sit in branches, information-technology departments and call-centres.
Some of the larger names in the sector are so familiar that their ubiquity obscures just how much cash they are throwing off and what great investments they are.
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Through software that obscures users' identifying information such as email addresses and phone numbers, Datalogix and Facebook can combine their databases, and group users based on their offline purchases.
Talk of Medicaid, language instruction, demographic charts and border crossing obscures the facts, and debaters on both sides tend to forget that immigrants, even the unskilled, contribute to economic growth.
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