Word: deflections
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...Fault lines also became apparent regarding the proposed balanced- budget amendment, with moderate Republicans (joined by some Democrats) objecting to a provision that would mandate a three-fifths majority of both houses to approve tax increases. Of course, Republicans' differences weren't so great that they couldn't deflect Democratic demands that a balanced-budget amendment include a detailed plan laying out proposed spending cuts. And in the Senate, G.O.P. leaders marshaled through a measure adopted by the House that would subject Congress to employment laws already applicable to the private sector...
...practical counterargument is that it would buy time for the public school system. One of the great engines of disenchantment with the way bureaucrats instruct children is the religious right, for which Johnny's inability to pray and to read are linked. Returning prayer to public schools might deflect conservative evangelicals from the campaign against the education establishment. Evangelists for school choice don't want the public school system to get better; they want it to get worse, as a prelude to getting out of it and into private schools. To them the push for prayer is like asking...
...spirited offensive served to deflect parliament's fire away from Grachev himself, and no vote was taken to call for his dismissal. But when he dropped out of a government visit to the Gulf region last week, the presumption was that he had finally fallen from official favor. In fact, Grachev had become ill after speaking to the parliament and checked into a hospital for medical tests...
...blending himself into history and folklore may have been a strategy to deflect intimacy and embarrassing inquiry. Dawidoff suggests this view, with speculation that Berg had trouble living up to his billing as athlete-scholar- spy and actually felt unworthy. Just as likely, he feared the dull prospect of settling down after baseball and a good war and so decided to schedule the rest of his life as a series of away games...
Eaton and Orfield also accused MontgomeryCounty officials of trying to deflect attentionfrom the district's problems...