Moreover, the curve was skewed to the right, with a long tail, however slender, of patients who lived many years longer than the eight-month median.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go

Flavio Paixao ought to have scored when Simon Mensing found time and space down the right to pick out the Portuguese forward, but he skewed his shot a few inches past Allan McGregor's post.

BBC: Rangers 1-0 Hamilton

But before getting lost in the fallout it would be useful to take a step back and consider the broader picture, which is how a school with presumably good intentions could get to this point, how its sense of priorities and values could become so skewed it took the public airing of a videotape for people in charge to do the right thing.

WSJ: What Was Lost at Rutgers��Jason Gay

Of course, that figure grants the Bureau of Labor Statistics the right to geometrically weight, hedonically fudge and substitute all kinds of skewed figures to get their numbers.

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