Word: distraction
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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...
...master magician. Having pronounced last week his three conditions for Social Security reform—the creation of private individual investment accounts, no higher taxes and no cuts in benefits for retirees in the near future—Bush seems to be hoping that this white rabbit proposal will distract onlookers from the gobs of federal deficit mounting in his black magic budget hat. Because during the New Deal, the current Social Security system was implemented as a pay-as-you-go plan, in which the current workers pay for the benefits of the retirees, an attempt to privatize Social...
...agitation. Games aren't mere athletic contests; they are in-your-face productions. Laser-light-show introductions, clatter-making Thunder Stix and scoreboard exhortations for more noise contribute to an atmosphere of confrontation. Players shooting free throws used to be accorded an almost respectful silence. Now fans attempt to distract them by jeering and waving towels. It doesn't work, but that doesn't stop the fans' behavior...
...locations. I think it’s kind of a cool solution. Since when has it been a bad idea to expose greater numbers of people to fresh and arguably good music? A colorful record display could perform a public service: it might distract post office patrons, however momentarily, from the soul-sapping reality that they’re waiting in line at the godforsaken post office. Don’t hate, Chris...