Word: deflections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rumored "shoot to kill" police orders. Blacks and Hispanics in Texas especially feared the Dallas police's reputation for a "shoot first ask questions later" behavior against minorities. One officer had just beer fired from the force, but community leaders said the firing was merely a cover-up to deflect criticism. And the week of the convention, police responded to minority criticism by saying: Of course minorities are shot by police more often; they shoot at us more often than others...
Reagan is not likely to give much ground in London. Speaking with reporters before leaving Washington, he defended his budget policy in a way calculated to deflect criticism at the summit...
...Riesman charged, student radicals look to the president as someone to blame "all that is hideous on." would not the presidents want to deflect that responsibility else-where? And if the presidents must indeed be held "inceasingly responsible to constituencies that are often antagonistic to each other," is it not natural and not inconvenient to blame al failures, real or imagined, upon some amorphous lack of authority...
...course, unlikely that Bok will suddenly drop his philosophical objection and embrace the new ACSR line. But, he must take the report more seriously than he has taken student protesters. The ACSR, traditionally a lightning rod to deflect student discontent, has now passed the buck...
Hart's earnest rebuttals and belated attempts to deflect the barb with humor (he held his book, A New Democracy, between hamburger buns) did little to stem the damage. For Mondale's purposes, it was almost as if a subtle anti-Hart ad campaign had been running nationally for two months. The Wendy's chain has spent more than $8 million broadcasting its "Where's the beef?" TV ads (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). By comparison, Mondale and Hart between them have spent $2.2 million on TV advertising. Has an adman's whimsy been carried...