Word: distraction
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...read the book,” there is an essential honesty, albeit a cutesy one, that brings tinges of Bessie and Sarah. However, there are too many lines like, “I found two cheap tickets / on the Internet,” that seem so anachronistic they distract from the blues feel Keb’ seemingly tries to emulate...
...national debt: “the best things in life are free; for everything else, there’s Future Generations of Taxpayers.” But then, with both parties going on about doling out individual goodies (whether tax breaks or entitlements), it’s easy to distract the public from the mounting deficits; since their costs will fall on everybody, nobody wants to deal with them. I guess you could say the voters have been fooled by the “piece of the rock” they got...in the mail. But a common goal...
...Janet’s bare breast will certainly be forgotten by the American consciousness soon enough. But our national obsession with these frivolous sexual encounters is doing more harm than we realize. And while we continue to focus our attention on the trivial and the meaningless, we conveniently distract ourselves from things that might really matter...
True, the attempts to distract Bulldog free-throw shooters were only intermittent and the chants of expletives—serving to express dismay at the perceived ineptitude of the officials—were out-of-rhythm and inconsistent...
...longer be able to write his own exit lines. And they revived plans, long abandoned, of a badly needed reform of the nation's numerous, mysterious, overlapping and often quarrelsome intelligence agencies. Bush had shelved the idea of a massive, one-time overhaul after 9/11, lest the undertaking distract the nation's spooks from their job of protecting the country from further calamity. But if the resulting work has not been effective, as Kay's findings suggest, there's little reason to put off a fix much longer...