Word: deflections
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...nothing unusual about the RTC's appointing a lawyer like Stephens. With its staff taxed to the limit, the RTC routinely farms out complicated legal work to private lawyers. But the agency didn't pick just anyone. Stephens, says a banking regulator, "was deliberately chosen so the RTC could deflect any charges that it wasn't being rigorous in its Madison- related investigations...
...consciousness of guilt." The Santa Barbara D.A. also wanted several police to be present when Jackson was photographed, and for a ruler to be used to measure any splotches of vitiligo, a pigment disorder, that might be found on his penis. But Jackson's team managed to deflect those medieval demands...
Trying to deflect an assault from Congress, which is considering federal restrictions, the video-game industry pledged to develop a voluntary rating system to keep children away from the more violent games, some of which depict dismemberment. The proposal received a cool reception from a Senate panel.If you don't do something, we will, warned Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl...
...floor painting departments, is an inventive mix of natural and electric light. His solution to Paris' wide seasonal variations was to place a system of wooden screens under the skylights. Their angles are set to prevent direct sun from falling on the paintings and at the same time to deflect the beams from hidden overhead spotlights. The system works beautifully except in those rooms where museum officials, ignoring Pei's wishes, hung paintings above other paintings. The result is a distracting sheen on the higher canvases. Asked why Pei's advice was ignored, curator Pierre Rosenberg snapped, "No museum...
...following story: her father was having an affair with the wife of Herr "K," a family friend. Herr K had been paying unwanted sexual attentions to Dora since she was 14 and was now being encouraged in this pursuit by her father, presumably as a way to deflect attention from the father's alliance with Frau K. After hearing this account, Freud, as feminists say, did not get it. He decided Dora really desired Herr K sexually, plus her father to boot, and he criticized her "hysterical" refusal to follow her true inclinations, embrace her circumstances and make everyone, including...