Word: distractive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Latin American countries. According to these delegations, overpopulation is a myth invented by the rich to exploit and subjugate the poor. Soviet Deputy Minister of Health Lev Volodarsky contended that high population-growth rates have "nothing to do with the real reason for backwardness and only serve to distract attention from needed social reforms." Huang Shu-tse, Deputy Minister of Health for China, which has the world's greatest population (800 million), declared that development lags were caused by exploitation by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and "the large population of the Third World is an important condition...
...takes some doing for Writer Leonard to get the gangsters stirring about credibly in the south 40, but Director Fleischer manages a few action sequences that occasionally distract one from the general silliness of the whole enterprise. Al Lettieri may be the heaviest-handed heavy now operating in the movies, but he does bring a certain entertaining enthusiasm to his work as a big-city hit man lost in the alien corn. Any other actor might have broken up when required to order an innocent and helpless melon crop to be machine-gunned as an act of vengeance...
Cyprus and the search for a Vice President might distract attention temporarily, but the Ford Administration knows quite well what is the deadliest danger that it and the nation face: inflation. The new President sought last week to assure the country of his determination to confront it, making economic policy the focus of his heavily applauded first speech to Congress. But his program as it emerged in the broadest of outlines could almost be called Nixonomics without Nixon: it contained little that had not been advocated by the previous Administration. Whether that signified a barrenness of ideas or a realistic...
...taken by themselves, the transcripts shouldn't distract Congress or the American people from other things--such as fighting President Nixon on issues ranging from his continuing support for repression in southeast Asia to his impounding vitally needed funds voted by Congress for domestic programs. If Nixon succeeds in using the transcripts to narrow questions like these to questions of his prior knowledge of one burglary--or even of just what bad name he called Robert F. Kennedy '48--the American people will have lost the battle before it even begins...
...distract the populace from such hardships, the regime has jingoistically renewed the ancient feud with Turkey. The Cyprus dispute has been revived, and there is a new argument over Turkish rights to drill for oil in the Aegean. Relations with the U.S. are also clouded. Last year, aware that the mood of the U.S. Congress was to cut off the 1973 grant of $15 million in military aid, the Greek government on its own eliminated it. Junta leaders, who have given up their American limousines in favor of Mercedes-Benzes, have blocked the U.S. Navy's plans to home...