Word: diversionism
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His advice did not meet with enthusiastic approval at the state agency. Said Anthony Papa of the SLA: "The mayor gets what, $110,000? For him to be brown bagging is ridiculous." Papa then countered with a blatant diversion, urging that Koch suspend the city's crazy-quilt parking...
Those who think issues should prevail in politics deplore any emphasis on personality. Yet personality and character matter, because they suggest how a President would respond in a crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments...
To some White House aides, trekking to the relatively tranquil Far East was an unwelcome diversion from these more pressing concerns. Groused one Reagan lieutenant: "It's a real pain." But there was cogent reason to demonstrate U.S. solidarity with allies that it can count on. The Reagan Administration...
The one pro-environmental decision that Clark's defenders could cite was ambiguous. In 1978 he first wrote the opinion rejecting efforts by environmentalists to relocate a water-diversion project on California's American River, arguing that since the facility was federally funded, the state court lacked jurisdiction...
He works in the attic of a five-story apartment house at Haberlandstrasse, 5, a quiet thoroughfare near Berlin's zoölogical garden. A large iron door, which clangs as it shuts, keeps him in solitude and silence. The room smells of tobacco. He smokes a long-stem...