Word: deflects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deflect the discontent, Nannen named two outsiders, Business Journalist Johannes Gross and Television Executive Peter Scholl-Latour, as co-publishers and editors in chief. The magazine's management also returned $200,000 that had been paid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for British and Commonwealth publication rights. The placatory efforts backfired. In a statement, some 200 editorial employees labeled the episode "a severe blow against 35 years of Stern credibility." About 100 staffers staged a sit-in at Stern's offices to protest the hiring of Gross and Scholl-Latour because their jobs would merge business...
...drawn-out war against Iraq has clearly helped the regime to deflect attention from much of its internal strife. The offensive occupies an army that could otherwise become dangerously restless, while allowing Khomeini through assassinations and contrived battlefield accidents to get rid of certain "undesirables." Says Mansouri: "Khomeini is the time bomb the Shah bequeathed to Iran when he fled." It is a lesson even the Soviets have had to learn the hard way. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...floor, but it admits that it has no direct proof of the charges against the Soviets. The official Soviet news agency TASS denied the accusations, calling them "baseless propaganda," and even some Western intelligence experts suggest that the Swedish navy may have made the claims to deflect criticism of the unsuccessful search last fall. But many Western officials believe the Swedes, who have agreed to share information on the incursions with NATO...
...Christian militiamen. Angry that their military victory in Lebanon was turning into a political disaster, the Israelis set back the timetable for withdrawal of their troops from Lebanon. They were motivated partly by the desire to negotiate guarantees of security along their northern border, partly by the wish to deflect attention from the hated Reagan initiative until it died of inertia...
That cynical view was shared by the Prime Minister's critics at home, who insisted that she was merely trying to deflect public attention from raging unemployment (now 13.3%) and the alarming decline of the pound. Sterling dropped to an alltime low of $1.56 on foreign exchange markets briefly last week...