Word: deflections
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...really don't care. Any outcome will only be a loss for Russia. The referendum is needed by the Yeltsin team to deflect the people's attention from real failures in the economy. This is in the tradition of our Communist Party bureaucracy. Whenever things went wrong, they tried to distract attention, as in ancient Rome, by providing bread and circuses...
...White House press conference, used it to ladle out dollops of new fact laced with Kennedy glamour. That has all been turned on its head. The 150 or so correspondents now prepare themselves to trap the President for a minidrama on the nightly news, while he arms himself to deflect their barbs or smother them in warmed- over words. A game is afoot. This round went to Bill Clinton by an Arkansas mile. Next time . . . well, given the President's determination not to filter his proposals through the contentious corps, next time may be many months away. Then there...
Israeli officials may have publicized the theory about Hamas' ties in the U.S. and the arrests of the Americans in order to deflect attention from the fracas over the deported Palestinians. The U.S. -- and most of the world -- thought the move was a blunder, putting Israel on the defensive. "We've had to conduct an uphill struggle to make our case understandable," says Dromi. "The more facts that expose the nature and magnitude of this threat, the better Israel's case...
...calculate that for objects having diameters of 100 m or more that are spotted late in the game and intercepted at a distance any closer than about 150 million km (93 million miles), only nuclear explosives pack enough wallop to avert disaster. At that distance, the energy needed to deflect a 2-km-wide (1 1/4-mile) object enough to spare Earth is about the equivalent of a 1-megaton nuclear explosion. If the object gets to about a tenth of that distance, the energy required is 100 megatons, more powerful than any nuclear device yet exploded...
...only from a few months to two years before passing Earth. Should one suddenly appear on a collision course, traveling as fast as 217,000 km/h (135,000 m.p.h.) relative to Earth, defenders would not have the luxury of years of observation and of using a small explosion to deflect it. A quick nuclear bang would be needed...