Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Osborne said she believed Nero was using her to distract the board from a more serious charge: that the secretary deliberately disobeyed Smith's orders...
...investigation's fresh start is certain to distract the already embattled Clinton Administration for another six months and to push the probe's conclusion into the middle of Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. The official White House reaction to Starr's arrival was a polite, two-sentence statement of welcome. The real reaction was different. "This is awful," said a Clinton adviser...
...week, it just wasn't the same as being there. The dregs and creme de la creme of the Boston area come together for this concert. If you don't like classical music, pretend it's an elevator and don't allow the Muzak in the background to distract you from people watching...
...Jones proceeds now, Bennett plans to argue, the decision could inspire copycat lawsuits. In Fitzgerald, Chief Justice Warren Burger was worried that uncontrolled litigation, which sometimes is used as "a mechanism of extortion," could spur a President's political opponents to file suits simply to distract him from his duties. After quoting Burger, Bennett's draft says "one can readily imagine" further claims, "especially involving unwitnessed one-on-one encounters that are exceedingly difficult to disprove. Moreover, given the moral annihilation approach to modern politics, one can easily envision political operatives recruiting putative plaintiffs to embarrass a President...
...know, some of you are snickering, "stupid, the announcers are on the course, they have to whisper so as not to distract the game...