Word: distractedness
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Our point isn't that wall color deserves to be given equal due in the headlines. Rather, we just want the media to recognize when it's being fed a carefully timed and calculated diversion. We are as easily distracted by gender politics as students are by those fluorescent lights...
ACCURACY OVER IDEOLOGY The press might have less difficulty withholding the details of ongoing national-security programs if it were not distracted by the grandiose notion that it must "speak truth to power" [July 10]. A better objective would be to provide accurate and useful information. That may not sound...
Argenbright points to a study he commissioned by researchers at Georgia Tech University that found that non-college-educated minorities were the best screeners, both because they took the most pride in the job and because they became less bored or distracted with the repetition of watching x-ray screens...
What's clear: enemies are out there, as ardent and violent as ever. What's changing is our view of them. We in the easily distracted West may be becoming wiser, little by little. Hard experience will do that, like it or not. We are beginning to embrace--slowly and...
Grandpa (Alan Arkin) does heroin. Dad (Greg Kinnear) hopes to become a motivational guru with a dreary nine-step program that asks people to banish their inner losers. Chubby little Olive (Abigail Breslin) is determined to become a prepubescent beauty queen, the Little Miss Sunshine of the title. That goal...