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Is not the wide talk of profits for companies now largely fiction and a matter of opinion, with figures being massaged by standard accountancy techniques?
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They wanted unemployment figures to fall, so they changed the system and massaged the figures.
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They must be not merely a means of creatively massaging unemployment figures.
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The massaged figure of ·5 million people unemployed is being increased at the rate of about 20,000 a month.
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They may use that terminology but there cannot be massaging of notified vacancies.
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The accusation is that, to get the count down, the rough sleepers unit has been deliberately massaging those people who are sleeping rough.
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Of course, if enough changes are made in the unemployment calculations the figures can be massaged downwards.
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Every baby is massaged with oil before being bathed.
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However, those sums are available for massaging the accounts of proposed privatised industries in advance of flotation.
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They tend to be highly massaged, selective figures, always played down.
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We do not want the figures to be massaged for propaganda purposes.
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He said that he would reduce hospital waiting lists, but already the words are being massaged.
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The figures are then massaged and sent down like darts to the county councils.
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They have also done so by massaging the trade figures, culling the hospital waiting lists and, most recently, trying to fiddle the retail prices index.
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The two sets of figures are massaged into compatibility by the forecast that the income from council house sales will rise by £430 million next year.
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