Word: deflections
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...piece of propaganda whose solepurpose was trying to deflect attention from thereport," Eaton said. "There was nothingparticularly useful in there to make the reportmore accurate...
...since becoming the first Democrat to announce his candidacy for the state's highest office in April 1993, Barrett has had to deflect accusations that he and the governor are too much alike...
...breakdown of family life in the ghettos. That's why the Murphy Brown passage -- criticizing the fictional TV reporter for having a baby out of wedlock -- got so much attention, as Quayle knew it would. Speaking in San Francisco shortly after the L.A. riots, Quayle was attempting to deflect any blame away from the Reagan-Bush Administration that had been in putative charge of the country for 11 years. But more than that: the attack on Murphy Brown was supposed to be a shot in the conservative cultural war. Coming just as the 1992 presidential campaign was heating...
...makes one wonder if Ellison's message ever got through to the larger public. As he declared in his 1963 essay "The World and the Jug," he wrote not from a belief that blacks can only suffer and rage, but from "an American Negro tradition which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain. It is a tradition which abhors as obscene any trading on one's own anguish for gain and sympathy; which springs not from a desire to deny the harshness of existence but from a will to deal with...
...with many new advice industries, this one has its amateurs. One "expert" suggested that employees learn aikido; another persuaded a client to arm every employee with a can of Mace. Another told workers to keep their doors open at a 45 degrees angle so as to deflect bullets. In one case an investigator hired by a company to follow an employee ended up attaching a tracking bug to the person's car, and in another case security consultants simply broke the law by checking a worker's arrest record in a state that allows employers to verify only convictions...