Word: diverter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Against Unfair Taxation. The group appeals for money to be spent not on smoking prevention programs, but on issues such as AIDS, homelessness and poverty. In fact, the committee is entirely financed by tobacco industry executives. Their sudden concern for social problems in Massachusetts is just a ploy to divert attention from the fatal dangers of smoking...
...whole game." Bush's advisers do worry about losing Texas. But they argue, perhaps wishfully, that Perot could diminish Clinton's overpowering lead in California to the point where Bush would be competitive there. If the numbers in the nation's largest state begin to change, Bush would divert money and time to the West Coast. That would force Clinton to do the same in the final weeks. Clinton's pollster, Stan Greenberg, insists the Democrat's hold on California is impregnable even if Perot reduces the spread...
...churned out 75,000 copies instead of the usual 6,000 for a first novel -- if she had not been married to the Vice President. Marilyn Quayle's activities demonstrate nothing more than the fact that in the modern age, talented, ambitious women need not hide their skills nor divert their energies. Although politically unthinkable for a Republican at the moment, what would be wrong with a qualified lawyer like Marilyn Quayle -- or Hillary Clinton -- holding an important government job, if earned by merit? Robert Kennedy was his brother's Attorney General, and both the President and the country were...
...Geological Survey. "To have 30 seconds' warning would sound like a helluva idea to me if I worked near a sulfuric acid vat." Japan has already built advanced systems to shut down nuclear power plants, cut the gas flow from public utilities and issue tsunami alerts. Similar systems could divert incoming aircraft, warn rescue workers of aftershocks and minimize damage to computer, telecommunication and financial data networks...
Bush and his economic advisers continued to try to divert blame for the economy to everything from Congress to the end of the cold war to Saddam Hussein to the German central bank. In a hard-hitting speech in New Orleans, Clinton portrayed the Administration's economic excuses as a Bush character flaw, proof of "the failure of the President to assume responsibility for the future of this country...