Word: distractive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recognizing the potential risk in their jobs, hit men often ape the tactics of their counterparts in organized crime, carefully timing and rehearsing their jobs, using accomplices to distract their victims, noting the nearest exits, and leaving cars at the curb with motors running...
Those who argued that the imminent prospect of widespread starvation should not distract the delegates from formulating long-term goals were, however, frustrated by conceptual wrangling. Last week Conference Secretary-General Sayed Ahmed Marei of Egypt said that several oil-producing countries had agreed to help finance a billion dollar program for an agriculture-development fund to help food-deficient countries. Unfortunately, Marei's announcement proved to be premature. By week's end the various OPEC delegations had become embroiled in disputes over what criteria should be used to fix the participants' contributions. The conference closed recommending...
Beckwith said environment, social and economic factors affect a person's chances of being institutionalized. He said this study is one of several recent studies that "tries to explain away problems by genes and distract attention from social conditions that cause problems...
...entire production at Manhattan's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater is laudable in its clarity and lack of gimmickry. The spare, pillared set of Santo Loquasto is a marvel of economy, and the tasteful costumes of John Conklin never distract from Shakespeare's lines, an unmixed blessing, considering who wrote them...
Finally, I just can't say enough for the zany jokester from the Purple and White band who, while the Harvard band was playing, suddenly bolted across the field trying to distract everyone. What a putdown that...