1.   Suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss.

2.   Actual voting levels are very hard hard to determine, as almost all polls find wildly inflated voting claims.

3.   Economists no longer make such inflated claims.

4.   No one at the fund-raiser asked about the inflated claims, although some conceded privately that they were curious.

5.   Other recent enforcement actions have involved what the SEC judged to be inflated claims about performance and favoritism in allocating securities to various accounts.

6.   That then shifted to more volatile high-technology and bio-medical companies, opening the door to inflated claims and stock-price manipulation.

7.   The mistake of selling the public short extends far beyond inflated promotional claims.

8.   Both sides in the conflict regularly make inflated claims of success.

9.   But Keimer said Disney continues to use inflated claims to promote the books.