Word: distractive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson then flails away at the idea of moral equivalence, the heretical notion that human rights practices should be judged on one scale. The editorial asserts that this is simply meant to "confuse the issue," and Hirschorn asserts that the approach is a ploy, to distract from the fact that conservatives can not argue the issue of divestment on its own merits. To the contrary, the Salient has printed lengthy, reasoned articles on why divestment from South Africa is a counter-productive gesture, but they have never elicited any response. The divestment movement here is hardly concerned with the effectiveness...
...with that ever so sly, slightly lidded look of hers, she imparted the gentlest hint of irony to the proceedings. The coaching that she received from Gandhi Director Sir Richard Attenborough paid off. Charles even provided a touch of Piccadilly farce by draping a handkerchief over his head to distract Sons William, 3, and Henry, 1, and then mugging like an attenuated version of his great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria. The children were amused...
Mitterand: Shhhhhhh! Will you keep it down. If your paranoia about that leaked to the public, they would all realize how much of a threat the strike really is. Just remember the plan. Let us distract attention from the coal, diamond and gold miners with out economic sanctions. You may not have to worry too much anyway. Cyril Ramaphosa [general secretary of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers] says only 240,000 belong to the union, and your Chamber of Mines reports that figure at only 83,000. It may not go off too well...
Reagan's advisers did what they could to distract attention from Bitburg. Shortly after the President's arrival in Bonn, they announced an embargo on trade between the U.S. and the Marxist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua. They also quietly suggested that Kohl was mainly responsible for the Bitburg debacle, even as they publicly insisted that there had been no damage to the close relationship between the two leaders and their countries...
...best possible light as the champion of the common man. Of course, he also looks out for No. 1. But are his and other takeover fights good or bad for the U.S. economy? They have clearly made life miserable for the corporate officers with whom Pickens has dueled. They distract these officers from running their businesses and force them to spend great sums of time and money fighting off attacks. The takeover maneuvers can also lead to the assumption of mountains of debt by firms that make acquisitions or reach costly settlements...