Word: distractedness
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The cold war has been not only a multitrillion-dollar (and ruble) expense but also a grand obsession. It has distorted priorities, distracted attention and preoccupied many of the best and the brightest minds in government, academe and think tanks for nearly two generations. There is a long line of...
The operation went off with military precision. At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers from the Dijin, a police special-operations team, hustled Eduardo Martinez Romero out the back door of a maximum-security Bogota jail while other officers distracted reporters and photographers gathered in front. Martinez, wanted in Atlanta in...
These twelve stories issue up-to-the-minute dispatches from the sexual wars, and the news is not good for either side. The men, selfish and distracted, bolt at the first hint of that dread word, commitment. The women work at being hip and wary but are as overmastered by...
It is a game, however, with extraordinary stakes. The Time-Warner deal had gathered support among many U.S. business leaders because it suggested a healthy way for companies to grow and expand without incurring a backbreaking load of debt. But the frenzy that surrounded the Paramount proposal last week seemed...
A media tale: American television correspondent covering a unit of government troops moving against a guerrilla post in El Salvador keeps eyeing his watch and asking the commander when he will order the attack. Distracted commander says, "Not yet, not yet." Correspondent finally explodes, "Goddammit, I've a bird ((satellite...