Word: deflect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only quoting "outside sources" and that the allegations did not reflect the Kremlin's official view. A State Department aide characterized the exchange somewhat differently. Said the official: "There was a lot of shouting." Some Western diplomats in Moscow speculated that the Soviet charges were meant to deflect attention from Italian Judge Ilario Martella's report indicting three Bulgarians (and by implication the Soviet KGB) for conspiring to murder Pope John Paul...
Perhaps polls do not really do much except satisfy curiosity and provide a data base for election bets. But politicians also use polls, their own and others, to direct candidates to target spots or to order up quickie commercials to exploit or deflect some new political concern...
...Kind was kind to the Eliot squad, allowing a pair of defensive tackles to smash through the line and deflect a pass just as it left his hands...
...liberal voting record the key issue. But though Iowa's voters tend to be conservative on most social issues, they are less so on matters of military and foreign policy. Harkin, who has won five successive terms in a Republican district in southwest Iowa, has tried to deflect criticism of his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion by proclaiming, "If we are truly concerned about respect for life, we should enact a nuclear freeze, cancel the MX missile and stop sending arms to Central America...
...autonomous Palestinian confederation by linking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. He hopes that by joining forces with Amman he can build momentum for talks with Israel. According to diplomats in Amman, however, Hussein may have different motives for embracing Egypt. He may want to deflect U.S. disapproval if, as some diplomats expect, he decides to buy weapons from the Soviet Union. Or he may simply | be pursuing his policy of forging alliances, in this case with the most populous Arab country. "Jordan is always looking for friends in the region," says a Western official...