To call this a business, however, is to distort the meaning of the word.
The best sort of budget seeks to distort private choices as little as possible.
Better yet, the drivers don't seem to distort aggressively with the volume jacked up.
Unfortunately, Republicans continue to push their tired, false claims to distort and distract the American people.
In this war, the enemy's attempt to distort and obscure its identity is its primary line of defense.
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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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President Obama and others have chosen to distort and malign private equity firms.
The WTO's director-general, Pascal Lamy, also detects longer-run strategic decisions to distort markets in order to promote national industries.
So the pressures that then come on to doctors are to distort waiting list figures, to push through GP referrals.
But developing profitable launch vehicles to carry humans, cargo, and satellites will remain difficult with NASA around to distort the market.
He said the concern arose from the possibility that naming a street for a deserving man might be used to distort history.
When a big bonus plan did take hold, the authors contend, it did more to distort incentives than to help HP advance.
In the films, Fiennes wears prosthetic make-up to distort his face but he says fans do still recognise him in the street.
The college bubble is not big enough already, and government should continue to distort capital markets towards artificially high levels of college expenditures.
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Any time you try to close the gap on the last two percent of any business measurement, you begin to distort the business itself.
If not for the excess liquidity created, there would not have been sufficient fuel to distort the housing market and ultimately the financial system.
Any fair-minded person would understand the distinction, as well as the underlying motive to distort the public record to satisfy a clear editorial preconception.
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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Those media that did not seek to downplay the importance of Beck's visit opted instead to distort who he is and what he is doing.
Each mode offers 6 different effects to distort your coworker's faces and turn your friend's pets into cartoons (as we aptly demonstrated in the gallery below).
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If you are going to distort the arguments of others, I suggest that you do not provide the evidence of your distortions in the body of your blog.
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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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Some lawmakers said the US should not be represented by a harsh critic of the UN with an abrasive management style who was accused of trying to distort intelligence information.
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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At present the rich world continues not only to obstruct such imports but to distort Africa's own markets by using them as a dumping ground for their own subsidised farm products.
On Thursday, UK Defence Minister Adam Ingram denied the government had put pressure on the intelligence services to distort information about Saddam's alleged weapons program to make a stronger case for war.
Biovail , the pharmaceutical company, joined this campaign last week with its own allegations that Gradient and hedge fund SAC Capital, among others, worked to distort its shares by disseminating false information about the company.
Mr Bolton - a well-known critic of the UN - was accused of bullying junior staff and trying to distort intelligence to fit his own views, but the White House said the charges were unfounded.
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As a general rule, they tend to distort markets and sectors, have unintended consequences down the line at best and immediately at worst, and lock in ways of doing things at the expense of innovation.
"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.
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