Word: divert
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...delaying the process? The Gore camp, Baker said, is "unwilling to make any commitment to accept finality in this election unless it receives the outcome it wants"; they make "false statements to divert attention"; and as for the illegality of the Palm Beach ballot, "that charge has faded now in the face of the finding that the ballot is legal...
Letting people invest their own money, says Bush, will produce better long-term returns than keeping all Social Security revenues in the hands of the government. So he uses about half the Social Security surplus--roughly $1 trillion--to give young workers the right to divert some of their payroll taxes to private savings accounts. Workers could then invest this money in stocks and bonds...
...TRILLION-DOLLAR HOLE By allowing workers to divert part of their payroll taxes to private accounts (Bush hasn't said how much this would be; the fraction his advisers throw around is one-sixth), Bush cuts the size of the Social Security surplus almost in half, reducing it about $1 trillion. And not using that money for debt reduction adds an additional $300 billion to the government's interest bill. These costs (along with his $1.6 trillion tax cut) mean it will take longer for Bush to eliminate the national debt, leaving less money in the future to guarantee Social...
...phone calls, protests and editorials that will accompany any decision they make. But come Friday, there may be no movement at all. Political observers speculate it's quite possible the agency will hedge its bets and ask for more time to consider the issue, in an effort to divert attention from the pill - and its purpose - until after the November 7 election. And Al Gore isn't likely to protest that line of logic...
...Voice of the People Don't [sic] Stop (Thursday, August 17): An umbrella rally to cap off the week of demonstrations, featuring drums, pots and pans, whistles, horns, banners, signs, puppets, and basically anything activists can bring to divert attention away from Gore's acceptance speech...