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Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth with a bunch of unearned compliments and half-truths.

Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any more surgical gloves on your head and inflate them.'

phony partnerships set up to inflate the profits.

Certainly in the day where most products are scanned and pricing therefore is vastly more accurate than when prices were tagged, we don't factor that into our costs to try to inflate prices to cover it. That doesn't hit our radar screen. We try to deal fairly with customers, just as vastly they deal fairly with us.

Basically, Viagra last year helped inflate expectations for the pharmaceutical group and it's made it more difficult for the drug companies this year to live up to expectations,

I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.

I take it out of my hands as a coach and let three people do it with no reason to inflate the stats. They are very unbiased. We try to keep it as legitimate as possible.

We introduce a balloon of half a liter volume (about a pint) in the stomach and inflate it so it takes up space and helps slow down the eating. This causes a sense of fullness, and the patient is helped to lose weight.

You don't need to spend $79 or more to monitor your credit. It's a gimmick designed to inflate the revenue at the bureaus. It's not going to prevent ID theft. It may give you a little bit of early warning. But it doesn't matter enough for you to pay that amount of money.

What we're seeing is a lot of homeowners trying to inflate the price of homes in areas not hit by flooding.

We were doing this to inflate our earnings, and I don't think we wanted to show people what we were doing.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her

Run for the hills if anyone asks you to inflate your income or deflate your debt.

This amounts to counting chickens before they hatch in an effort to inflate the numbers.

This is an economy that is giving contradictory signals. You don't have companies willing to build inventories, which show that they don't have a lot of confidence. Retailers are pumping sales by discounts, but you can't inflate confidence.

I'm not trying to inflate this. I'm trying to be fairly realistic.

If you don't eliminate the bias caused by smoking, it will artificially inflate the risk of dying among the lean and underestimate the risk of dying in the overweight,

Consumers in Missouri are actively reporting to us and we are following leads throughout the state, ... Some stations have clearly taken advantage of a natural disaster to inflate prices, which is a violation of Missouri law. They will find out the hard way that such actions don't pay.

The insurer wants to keep the cost down. It will try to stop the hospital performing unnecessary tests just to inflate the bill and will weigh up the relative merits of having all the treatment carried out on the spot or bringing you home in an air ambulance to be treated on the NHS.

The vast majority of Texas businesses faithfully follow the law but consumers should also be aware that disasters are a prime opportunity for unscrupulous businesses to inflate prices or commit fraud,

The device that causes an airbag to inflate in a crash is a nanotech device,

The crusade to convince us that global warming can only be dealt with by wealth destruction and higher energy prices began with an effort to 'raise awareness,' which turned into some delicate nanny-state prodding before efforts to artificially inflate prices.

The errors in data in (Hwang's) 2005 paper in (journal) Science are not simple mistakes, but it was an intentional fabrication to inflate the number of stem cells from two to 11.

There is nothing wrong with flipping houses. What's wrong is getting appraisers to inflate values.

It's a balloon, not a bubble. Balloons inflate and deflate; bubbles burst.

I don't want to inflate his start or deflate his start. In my lifetime in the NFL, he's the best back I've ever coached.

I don't want to inflate his start, or deflate it,