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Everyone has a pet peeve, be it a misused word, an unusual pronunciation, or what have you.
[Deceptively] is frequently misused.
In his WP column, Michael Kelly doles out some important context to the recent news that an international aid effort has produced $3 billion in pledges of aid for the Palestinian Authority: the London Sunday Times recently reported that the PA once diverted $20 million earmarked for low-cost housing to luxury flats for Yasser Arafat's elite instead, and moreover, that the PA's own auditors found last year that nearly 40 percent of the annual budget of $323 million was wasted, looted or misused.
In the Willey case, appointment to a federal board and a trip to a conference in Indonesia raise the question of whether the president misused government resources.
Carey was barred, say the papers, because he misused his power by tolerating and engaging in various laundering schemes to funnel money from his union's general fund to his own election effort.