Word: diverts
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...maneuvering was an introduction to the three-way politics likely to dominate the presidential race. Bush seized on the nostrum to divert attention from the $1 trillion in red ink added to the deficit during his presidency. Presumptive Democratic nominee Bill Clinton opposed it. But the pivotal factor may have been independent Ross Perot, who attacked the balanced-budget amendment as "an excuse not to do anything." (See related story on page...
...Little Communicator is at it again. As Republican spin doctors and political handlers scurry about the landscape trying to use "family values" to shore up President Bush's eroding base among conservatives and divert attention from peskier concerns such as the deficit, the Vice President must beat the populist drum on cultural and moral matters. To a standing ovation from the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis last week, Quayle declared that the hoots of nationwide amusement at his Murphy Brown efforts were a "badge of honor." A "cultural elite," cynical and relativistic, the same folk Spiro Agnew used...
...promoter of affordable public housing, Frank is often quite unpopular in Congress, and has faced considerable opposition in his efforts to divert money from such things as space development to housing...
Epps' would also like to divert some studentsocializing from the houses to a broaderCollege-wide setting. Epps advocates the formationof class councils to organize social events forthe individual classes. He said these groups wouldnot interfere with the Undergraduate Council'sresponsibilities...
...Tsongas depicted himself as the champion of deferred gratification and Clinton as a politician merely trying to win votes by promising tax relief for ordinary Americans. Tsongas argued that the middle-class tax cut and the tax credit for children younger than 18 -- both moves favored by Clinton -- would divert $55 billion a year from investment. In Tsongas' mashed metaphor, Clinton would waste precious "bullets" that could be used to jump-start the economy's manufacturing "engine." Only "when the engine runs," Tsongas said, can the country afford "other kinds of things," such as tax relief...