Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counteroffensive, or at least a reinforcement of Gorazde, with French troops to fly in aboard American helicopters. That got President Bill Clinton's attention, since he is still determined to keep the U.S., especially its ground troops, from sliding into the war. Though Clinton begrudges any time he must divert from domestic concerns, he spent at least 20 hours last week working on the Bosnia problem with his national-security aides...
...Perhaps as testimony to the financial muscle of AARP, no other Republican members of the panel showed up. Just two Democrats -- Sens. David Pryor of Arkansas and John Breaux of Louisiana -- stood by Simpson. At the end of the day, AARP released a statement accusing Simpson of trying to divert attention from its efforts to protect Medicare and Social Security...
...this makes me wonder whether the U.S. has been drafting a human rights report on other countries just to divert the nation's attention to other countries or to hide some of its own problems from the rest of the world...
French government and intelligence officials tell Sancton they believe the Interior ministry publicized the affair now to divert attention from a wiretapping scandal that has crippled the presidential campaign of French Premier Edouard Balladur. At the White House today, McCurry dropped a similar suggestion. Sancton notes that rumors of these activities have been floating around for two years; U.S. Ambassador Pamela Harriman was informed in late January...
...march family is the creation of a 19th century New England lady who never heard the phrase ``family entertainment'' but in her innocence imagined that by telling the story of one family that was going about the ordinary business of life, she could divert and instruct other families...