Word: distracter
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...outrage from members of the government who are wary of his dealings with Nepal's influential southern neighbor. The Maoists, observers say, need to raise the specter of royalist nefariousness to boost their own flagging support. "They need to create a sense of threat, of a larger enemy, to distract the people from their failings," says Dixit...
...appointed to lead planning for the period, and no concrete plans had yet been announced. “We are concerned that mounting a new, compressed, short-term set of offerings in January—particularly at a time when resources are highly constrained—would in fact distract from the College’s focus on other more central aspects of the undergraduate experience,” Hammonds and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith wrote in the e-mail to the College community yesterday afternoon. Hammonds said that students hoping to stay...
...state dinner. Ditto for George W. Bush - when he tried to leave a 2005 press conference in Beijing, cameras caught his humiliating attempt to open a locked door next to his podium. The resulting footage was an instant YouTube hit. Bill Clinton was accused of taking trips abroad to distract from his Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky troubles, but still managed to work in some 50 trips overseas while in office. (See George W. Bush's Top 10 YouTube Moments...
...Distract them with a big, shiny new toy If Geithner had testified before the same committee last week - as AIG CEO Edward Liddy did - he likely would've been eviscerated. Many of the "questions" for Liddy from both sides of the aisle turned into frustrated rants about how Geithner was botching his job and why the Treasury only just found out about the bonus payments. This week, though, Geithner was saved, in part, by the introduction Monday of the long-awaited details of his plan to get credit flowing again. Unlike his first stab at a rollout, this scheme...
...danger of paying more attention to her dog and her meals and her friends than I do to mine. My powers of concentration, never formidable, are deteriorating. I've always got one eye on Famous Writer's Twitter feed, waiting for the interruption that will distract me from my own, nonfamous existence. I think I'm in danger of mistaking my connection to Famous Writer for an actual human relationship instead of what it is--a slow drip of basically trivial data that I've been using as an excuse to get out of the hard work of being alone...