He exaggerates: 1983 was the election in which Michael Foot threw the Labour Party into a suicidal battle against Margaret Thatcher's Tories by campaigning for high taxes, stronger state intervention in the economy, withdrawal from the Common Market and unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Most economists think Japan's GDP deflator exaggerates the extent to which prices have fallen.
This shift contributed to the stubbornly stagnant claim figures in past months, and it exaggerates the extent of the drop over the past two weeks.
He also exaggerates Mr Blair's power to stop the American military juggernaut.
But how can a government have a serious debate about Britain and Europe if it refuses even to discuss Britain and the euro Answer: it simplifies and exaggerates, just like all the newspapers it chooses to excoriate.
"It's not Mardi Gras," says Doug Flynn, head of Aegis, an advertising agency, "but the attitude and expectation in the US ad market has become much more positive".Advertising usually exaggerates the economic cycle: falling sharply and early in a downturn, and rebounding strongly once the economy has begun to recover.
The gap between Republican and Democratic approval of his performance is wider than any previous president has known.The problem is that America has an electoral system which exaggerates the importance of way-out opinion.
The fact that most Indian companies are family-owned exaggerates this: to prevent wealth being diluted, it encourages marriages not only within the same caste, but also within the same family.
Because scales are not proportional, the chart grossly exaggerates share-price movements in Manila.The chart on the right, which is scaled so that a 50% price drop in one market is as prominent as a 50% drop in the other, puts the record straight and shows clearly that Manila's stockmarket was the better performer.
For all the Yes camp's talk of fairness, the 1998 Jenkins commission on electoral reform concluded that, in a landslide election, AV exaggerates the swing to the winning party: in 1997, Labour would have won 452 seats rather than 419.
