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Perhaps instead, it's the distortions brought to us of what's really going on.
Much better for everybody to go off by themselves, generate their own ideas freed from the distortions of group dynamics, and then come together as a team to talk them through in a well-managed environment and take it from there.
And we see these gravitational lensing effects, these distortions that say that, again, clusters are embedded in dark matter.
Destroy the lies and distortions.
So for a long time, psychologists have referred to these as cognitive distortions or even irrational beliefs.
But, instead, I realized that these films have made the very determination of the great "tragedy" trivial when the same boring situations, the same suffocating dysfunctional families and friendships continue to play out just have they been over and over again in some sort of attempt to knock out previous distortions of family life (much of it existing in the 1950s and earlier with personality and character aberrations being made ever so subtle), supplanting it instead with the "reality" of how things actually are.
This film is just another distortion, among many distortions, on the so-called 'sins of consumerism'.
Another is the historical inaccuracy of the film, which tarnishes the film in proportion to the many historical distortions.
Story about some obnoxious teenager (John Stockwell) who finds a little "box" from a flying saucer that creates time/space distortions...or something.
Only the most pedantic G&S historian will not forgive the mild omissions and distortions which are used to move the plot along, and the film manages to work in references to all but Patience, Ida, Utopia, and Grand Duke, often in quite clever and entertaining ways.
Add the economic distortions implicit in providing so much free downside insurance.
The good news is that the economies of the Arab Awakening countries do not suffer from the deep distortions that characterized post-communist Europe.
Likewise, though the document calls for strengthening local legislatures, it proposes no concrete plan to curb local governments’ role in economic activities, which is one of the sources of distortions in the Chinese economy.
Of course, a government can also close a budget gap by raising taxes, but any sudden shift can significantly magnify the distortions that taxes cause.
Emerging economies’ leaders fear spillover effects in commodity markets and distortions of exchange rates and capital flows that may compromise their own focus on financial stability.
To realize this potential, policymakers should eliminate arcane regulations that handcuff businesses; accelerate infrastructure projects; make the labor market more flexible; remove market distortions; and expand vocational training for the poor and uneducated.
It hid economic distortions, allowing successive governments to postpone needed structural reform as it financed the status quo.
But almost all economic models imply that a cut in expenditures today should lead to higher GDP in the long run, because it allows for lower taxes (and thus reduces economic distortions).
Critics call it a misguided effort that will only create more distortions and retard growth.
Ron Paul is right to point to imbalances of power and massive distortions within the financial sector.
In the West, Charles Darwin's theories suffered no less egregious distortions at the hands of supposed Darwinian acolytes.
Tax rates on different fuels vary by more than 50% across the EU, causing major distortions in the single market.
One set of complications arises from external global imbalances, distortions, and heightened volatility in capital flows, exchange rates, and relative prices.
These politically imposed weaknesses and distortions are today so deeply embedded in Europe’s political economy that there is little hope that the system can cure itself.
Monetary integration would weaken the existing distortions, reduce the scope for political intervention, and force European firms to become more competitive.
The pandering to extremist groups, the rejection of science, the outright lies and distortions, and the evasion of the real issues that characterized the most recent election cycle set a new low for democratic politics.
So rampant were the equivocations, untruths, and outright lies from both camps that many media outlets and non-partisan groups maintained running lists of factual distortions.
The more thinly capitalized banks are, the more severe these distortions – and the larger the expected costs rising from insulating executives from potential losses to non-shareholder stakeholders.
It is all well and good to counter undesirable economic developments at an early stage, as the Commission’s plan promises, but the time to begin is not when fiscal distortions actually threaten.
Such distortions are generally preceded by a buildup of macroeconomic imbalances.
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