Word: deflective
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...lamented that the White House seemed untroubled by these concerns. The report warned that Washington’s “messages should seek to reduce, not increase, perceptions of arrogance, opportunism and double standards.” It is these perceptions that help authoritarian regimes that deflect criticism of their rule by demonizing the Satanic West...
...even managed—so far—to deflect the gathering storm of criticism about the University’s declining number of female tenure offers under his guidance...
...barely dry on the birth certificate of Gwyneth Paltrow's baby, Apple Martin, and some new Hollywood tots with unusual monikers have arrived to deflect the playground taunts. On Nov. 28, after a month of bed rest, JULIA ROBERTS gave birth to a girl and a boy, Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter, by C-section. Roberts, 37, seen here in a glamour shot taken early in her pregnancy for January's W magazine, had the twins with husband DANNY MODER, a cinematographer (at the hospital window, left). Weighing a little more than 5 lbs. each, Hazel and Finn...
Among Washington elites, Donald Rumsfeld is the undisputed master of the press conference: a dexterous debater who undresses interrogators with a mix of septuagenarian folksiness and alpha-male swagger. That skill has helped Rumsfeld deflect blame for the mismanagement of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and keep his job as Defense Secretary for George W. Bush's second term. But when Rumsfeld fielded questions last week from soldiers preparing to move from Kuwait into Iraq, he finally met his match. Army Specialist Thomas Wilson, 31, asked the Secretary why soldiers are being sent to war in humvees and trucks...
Another problem with restricting access is that it might deflect attention away from more reasonable measures to improve house security. Instead of policies that leave students out in the cold, more security guards could be hired or allocated to watch over houses during the night. All too often security offices are dark and no one is watching out for undesirables, thieves or worse. Too little supervision, not too much student access is the greater house security risk...