Word: distracting
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...most positive outcome of the past few weeks may be the Faculty’s increased willingness to speak out on issues that have long troubled many of them. But its flipside is the dangerous likelihood that this crisis of governance will distract from the underlying issues—unintentionally aiding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ attempts to bring Washington politics to an institution that needs anything...
...only those pesky professors would keep their mouths shut. It’s not like the Faculty of Harvard could possibly know what they’re talking about, right? They’re asking insignificant questions that distract us from more important matters, aren’t they...
...robbery that officials blamed on the I.R.A., and that helped to kill the latest round of peace talks. $95,000 of that stolen cash has turned up - inside a police sports club in Belfast. Red-faced police there said the cash had been planted by the I.R.A. to distract from the damaging raids in the Irish Republic. Sinn Fein denies criminal ties. But a party member...
Alternately, usage of the word “wedge” carries a somewhat darker connotation than mere political advantage-seeking. This is the current of thought that suggests politicians are trying to distract voters from the important economic issues at hand with dramatic and irresolvable moral questions, questions that government really has no business associating itself with in the first place...
...study in the laundry room because it’s open all the time, and there’s no TV to distract me,” she says...