41.   One official said Tuesday that, in playing down the risk posed by the anthrax letters, the administration had not deliberately misled the public.

42.   Rosenblatt urged a multibillion-dollar penalty to punish tobacco companies for decades of misleading the public about the health risks of cigarettes.

43.   Strategies that mislead the public can backfire, Ms. Edwards added.

44.   Still, Washington is either misleading the public or fooling itself with claims of strong international backing, even from Arab states, for action against Hussein.

45.   Taylor, however, accused environmental groups of misleading the public on the issue.

46.   The ads unleashed the last several months have prompted an outcry from doctors and consumer advocates, who fear that the commercials could confuse or mislead the public.

47.   The counties also allege the industry fraudulently misled the public on the perils of cigarette smoking by downplaying the potential health risks.

48.   The computer manufacturers in the past have claimed they were not intentionally misleading the public, but merely were measuring the screens under traditional industry standards.

49.   The case then went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that warning labels do not shield companies from charges of fraud through lying and misleading the public.

50.   The fact is that the companies contract with larger breweries to make the beer and are misleading the public, Anheuser-Busch complains.