On switching a transmitter at gigahertz rate, the data at the receiver's end gets distorted in terms of pulse width and voltage due to line loss and dispersion originating from channel electrical characteristics.
However, some of the inverse parameters encountered some inaccuracy when the method was applied to residual data distorted, in terms of both magnitude and shape, by some significant neighboring gravity effects generated by nearby anomalous bodies.
"You have directors who had to distort the terms of the company's plan to give this guy an unbelievable amount of money," said Jay Eisenhofer, a lawyer at Grant & Eisenhofer who represents the Louisiana fund.
But it is posturing with a dangerous purpose: to further distort the terms of the budget fight, and in the process, to entrench the Republicans' no-new-taxes-ever stance.
But in his decision, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court wrote that "the proverbial cat is already out of A.T.F.'s bag" and that it made no sense "to distort the terms of a federal budgetary measure in order to wrestle the cat back in".
Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton's former spokesman, once argued that Bloomberg's excessive spending "distorts the terms of the debate," and is said to have fed a story to the Times in 2006 about the hypocrisy of Bloomberg's private funding of N.R.A.-backed candidates while publicly denouncing the spread of guns.
And although windfall taxes do indeed bring in short-term revenues, they do significant harm because they distort long-term incentives.
The lack of demand-side response, short-term reliability management procedures and non-market ancillary services provision often undermine market reflective scarcity pricing and distort long-term investment incentives.
But Middle East diplomacy is always distorted by short-term domestic politics.
