Word: distractedness
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“Right now, some people get three channels that are fuzzy, but that’s about it,” said Nitsch, who added that he will try not to watch too much TV because he fears being distracted by the new cable service.
Detractors point to the $27 billion drop in portfolio value between 2000 and 2003 as evidence that the CalPERS board has been distracted. However, the portfolio has gained $32 billion since 2003. Dr. Keith Richman, a Republican legislator, last week proposed privatizing the state-employee pension system and gradually abandoning...
Former U.S. Peace Envoy to the Middle East General Anthony Zinni argued that the United States’ war on terror has distracted from the more significant issue in the region, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, before a crowded JFK Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government last night.
Those living in the Middle East consider the Israeli-Palestinian struggle to be the region’s most pressing issue, Zinni said, and yet the United States continues to be distracted by the war on terrorism. He said that in contrast to past efforts, the U.S. has gone from...
It’s not so much an insult as an observation. That summer, I worked at a local newspaper, and my editor told me to go into police reporting because I looked “harmless” and “distracted.”