Word: distractability
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...that possibility, with Secretary of State Colin Powell at one point camping in his office to work the phones to Islamabad and New Delhi. The last thing Washington needs as it strives to complete its goals in Afghanistan is a separate, new war in the region. That would distract Pakistan, whose cooperation is essential to the American strategy in Afghanistan, as well as complicate the fortunes of its leader, Pervez Musharraf, who has proved a handy partner...
...hope that this tempest in a teapot will not distract Summers for long from important efforts in the area of undergraduate education. He must continue to work for faculty cooperation to achieve the goals he set out in his inaugural address. And we anticipate that in the future, Summers will be able to pursue University-wide excellence without such controversies. After all, the president of an institution of higher education must be able to learn as well as to teach...
...that possibility, with Secretary of State Colin Powell at one point camping in his office to work the phones to Islamabad and New Delhi. The last thing Washington needs as it strives to complete its goals in Afghanistan is a separate, new war in the region. That would distract Pakistan, whose cooperation is essential to the American strategy in Afghanistan, as well as complicate the fortunes of its leader, Pervez Musharraf, who has proved a handy partner...
Presidential candidates on all tickets are also heavily involved in non-council campus activities that may distract from the fervor of their campaigns...
...distract him by offering some raisins, and he backs away, laughing. Our guide Ahmed explains that the Taliban are fasting. It's Ramadan. On the other side of the world, Americans are waking up to Thanksgiving Day, football and turkey. A Washington Post reporter stranded here with me starts describing with considerable artistry the drool-inducing taste of his mother's turkey stuffing. We tell him to stop...