Word: deflective
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...begins her campaign for re-election this year, Hillary Rodham Clinton is laying all the necessary predicates for a possible run for the White House in 2008. In part to deflect the attacks of Hillary haters around the country, she has teamed with Republicans who once spat out her name like a curse. As a New York Senator, she has emerged as an outspoken booster of terrorism-preparedness programs at home and for more money for U.S. troops and better force protection in Iraq. And she is quietly constructing a nationwide fund-raising network capable of bringing in at least...
...whether or not A. Q. Khan - whom Pakistan will not allow the U.S. to question - is discussed during President Bush's one-day visit, not even the latest Qaeda bust is likely to deflect attention from the mounting problems facing Washington's shaky alliance with Musharraf. The Bush Administration has backed Musharraf on the basis that he is cooperating in the war on terror - even if not to the extent the U.S. demands - and that the alternatives are worse. But many secular liberals in Pakistan complain that Musharraf brandishes the jihadi threat to maintain military rule and suppress Pakistan...
...ball floated a bit, allowing two Princeton players to converge on Cusworth. The seven-footer went up for the ball but got undercut, causing the pass to deflect off of his hands and fall right to Princeton forward Kyle Koncz...
...pass to Cusworth who was wide open, for the moment, on his same side across half court. Enter bizarre sequence number two.The ball floated a bit, allowing two Princeton players to converge on Cusworth. The seven footer went up for the ball but got undercut, causing the pass to deflect off of his hands a fall right to Princeton forward Kyle Koncz. As Cusworth glanced to the nearby official in utter disbelief at the no call, Koncz cruised down court and 12 seconds later, the infamous Harvard killer Scott Greenman buried a trifecta to pull the Tigers within one with...
...says Washington has an understanding with Islamabad that allows the U.S. to strike within Pakistan's border regions--providing the Americans have actionable intelligence and especially if the Pakistanis won't or can't take firm action. Pakistan's caveat is that it would formally protest such strikes to deflect domestic criticism. Some ranking Pakistani officials deny such an agreement exists...