Word: deflective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...team had several other opportunities. They had 11 shots in the first period. In the third, Kellogg saw two shots deflect off the post. "The game was closer than the score indicates," Kellogg said...
...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...
...Palestinian self-rule, and begged Kollek to run again. It was a mistake not even Kollek's legendary charm could reverse. Olmert wisely let the mayor's 82 years speak for themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored by the mayor, the Likud candidate promised ultra-Orthodox Jews more power and money, and won handily with 59% of the vote...