Word: deflected
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...Christian militiamen. Angry that their military victory in Lebanon was turning into a political disaster, the Israelis set back the timetable for withdrawal of their troops from Lebanon. They were motivated partly by the desire to negotiate guarantees of security along their northern border, partly by the wish to deflect attention from the hated Reagan initiative until it died of inertia...
That cynical view was shared by the Prime Minister's critics at home, who insisted that she was merely trying to deflect public attention from raging unemployment (now 13.3%) and the alarming decline of the pound. Sterling dropped to an alltime low of $1.56 on foreign exchange markets briefly last week...
...columnists with opposing views, but their presence, in the limelight exposes traits in them that reporters seize upon. With Gerald Ford, a frequent target was his physical clumsiness; with Jimmy Carter, it was his "meanness." (The knock on Ronald Reagan, which White House publicists are trying to deflect, is "insensitivity" about the poor.) Carter is still in limbo: he roams the country flogging his memoirs, to a public not yet ready to resuscitate...
...frequently conducted outside the home. Television is chiefly a backdrop for other family activities. Six out of ten polled said they seldom paid close attention to the TV set while it was on. Far from creating a generation of TV zombies, the tube showed almost no ability to deflect Americans from other favorite pursuits around the house. Frequent adult watchers seem to be as home-centered as those who watch very little TV. Avid TV viewers read to their children and engage in family chats, possibly because the prime evening viewing hours coincide with time usually set aside for family...
Missiles might not destroy a silo even if they hit it dead-on. Destroying the silo requires the combined explosive force of all of the missiles. But if one of them explodes first, the resulting blast will destroy or at least deflect all the others. This "fratricide" theory remains unproven, but it forms the core of the justification for the "dense pack" basing mode proposed for the MX. If it will work for the MX, as the Administration claims, then it should work for the existing Minuteman silos, which can be hardened relatively cheaply...