Word: deflect
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...again--by selling "intelligent agents" that will help sort all forms of digital clutter, including E-mail. Joe's a bore, so relegate his notes to the bottom of the list. Shoot to the top anything from the boss. Primitive versions, called bozo filters, are already available to help deflect some of the more predictable detritus by sender and topic...
...swirled that the child actor turned rock star had set the craft ablaze free-basing cocaine. Today's telecitizens like to view tragedies involving high-profile victims as either retributions for evil or sacrifices of perfect innocence, and it will be interesting to see what moral is drawn to deflect and ease the sting of this...
...comments about the Administration. But in an interview a few days before the election, he pronounced himself "mightily, mightily disgusted" with revelations of Democratic fund-raising irregularities, which he said made Nixon's tactic of shaking down corporate contributions seem "pretty paltry in comparison." For Clinton to try to deflect the controversy by recommitting himself to a bill--co-sponsored by Thompson--that would ban many of the President's own campaign practices "shows breathtaking audacity," the Senator added...
...when an issue is too sticky to deflect--the future of entitlement programs, for example--he calls for the creation of a bipartisan commission. A bipartisan commission! The man is a walking bipartisan commission! If that's not enough, he has the nerve to say that "one of the responsibilities of growing older...is being able to tell people something they may not want to hear just because it's the truth." Statements like this are what makes Clinton Clinton. He's pragmatic enough to tell people exactly what they want to hear and yet he has the audacity...
Weld continued to use his record in the Bay State to deflect criticism of Republican presidential candidate Robert J. Dole's $550 billion...