Word: distracter
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Progress is sure to come to a halt as vindictive Democrats distract the nation from its real work and focus its attention on an inconsequential gaff—the Iraq war. But without luminaries such as Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), who will remind us of the “enemy that’s a taxi cab driver in the daytime, but a killer at night?” Meanwhile, the government will throw away billions of dollars on lowering student loan interest rates and providing healthcare to more Americans...
...points in the movie feature computer-generated modeling of Harold’s thoughts, but this technique, too, is used so rarely as to become superfluous. There’s so much cool but pointless visual trickery in this film that one begins to suspect Forster is attempting to distract you from the thin, weak narrative. The trick backfires, however, as the film never quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones, like Dustin Hoffman’s constant barefootedness, or Thompson’s enchantingly...
Once you’re seated and the entrée is coming, you’re hitting the hardest part of the meal: no food to distract you, and you’re probably out of pleasantries and basic getting-to-know-you chit chat. Now’s the time to stoke your prof’s ego and score major brownie points, so keep the questions coming on your end. Everyone loves to talk about themselves, and professors are no exception. Good places to start are with basic, less personal areas, like their field of study...
...what, if any, effect these ads will have, but Ford responded immediately with a spot featuring average Tennesseans expressing their disgust with the Republicans. A woman named Maura Satchell says, "My son's life is on the line in Iraq, and they're putting out these ads just to distract...
...gives us some inspiration about where this task force might focus its efforts. That report identifies key areas for improvement, such as the gathering and interpretation of course review data, the restrictive nature of the standard Harvard schedule and course model, and the tendency of faculty to let research distract them from teaching. The bulk of the committee’s recommendations focused on improving the resources available to faculty to improve their classroom instruction.This is all a fair start. A sustained effort to improve the pedagogical resources available to Harvard’s instructors will do no harm...