Shoehorning

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Shoehorning

The practice of picking and choosing data to fit a previous prediction. For example, if one predicts a recession but the recession does not materialize, one may identify negative economic information to "prove" that the recession (or at least a slowdown) really happened. Shoehorning connotes ignoring contradictory data.

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And if it does and gives Gardner a modern station it can take with it into the future, maybe it could put its shoehorning history in the past.

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Shoehorning individual sports into a team format is hardly an innovation and the Ryder Cup golf and Davis Cup tennis have proved successful.

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Regrettably, screenwriter Peter Straughan files down all of the barbs in Young's confessional, shoehorning the characters into a generic romantic comedy, replete with outlandish set-pieces.

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8-11 Rio Ferdinand (below) to organise the four-yearly England jape - shoehorning names of movies, or Jeffrey Archer novels, or even Wayne Rooney conquests (eg Agnes, Edith, Beryl) into TV interviews.