Word: deflective
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...Mideast crisis did, however, help Putin deflect attention away from his WTO embarrassment. "The tension could be felt in the air even as Bush and Putin were giving their joint press conference," said a Russian diplomat, "all their show of camaraderie notwithstanding." The diplomat cited the WTO talks with the U.S. that had fallen flat the very same morning as the primary source of this sudden tension. "Instead of a long-promised reward, Putin got a slap," he said...
...Which is to say, the press corps will take aim the instant Gore presents himself as a target. As it stands now, he has come to specialize at beating critics to the punch, perfecting a wry comic persona that manages to parody and deflect the image of the wooden know-it-all that dogged him in the 2000 campaign. For the May 13 episode of Saturday Night Live, he delivered an Oval Office speech from an alternate future, six years into a Gore administration. Global warming has been reversed, with the unfortunate consequence of precipitating a "war on glaciers...
Cynics might call it a "greenwash," a bid to deflect attention from Wal-Mart's controversial labor and health-insurance practices. But it's not just window dressing, because Wal-Mart sees profit in going green. "We are not being altruistic," says Scott. "This is a business philosophy, not a social philosophy." Some top environmentalists seem convinced he's serious, including Amory Lovins, head of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who is a paid adviser. "We don't go where we don't think there's a genuine interest in change," says Lovins...
...Gandhi remains leader of the Congress Party and the ruling Congress-led coalition, but stepped down as MP for the northern Indian district of Rae Bareli on Thursday to deflect opposition allegations that her chairmanship of a government think-tank broke parliamentary conflict-of-interest rules. Singh, meanwhile, is an unelected economist appointed by Gandhi herself almost two years ago after she recorded a surprise win in India's general election but declined the top job because of nationalist protests against her immigrant roots...
...2004’s “i”) that alternately charm and annoy the critics. Still, this album has a lot to unpack. Director Chen Shi-Zheng, Merritt’s theatrical collaborator, builds his drama on age-old stories that, like a puzzle, simultaneously attract and deflect the audience. Unsurprisingly, the plays are all built on somewhat macabre premises: “The Orphan of Zhao” dramatizes the historic massacre of the Zhao family; “Peach Blossom Fan” is titled after the story’s central, blood-stained symbol...