Word: diverts
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George Bush is right -- at least in part -- to be angry at critics who suggest he is skirting the brink of war to pump up his political standing and divert attention from the nation's economic angst. The real danger is far more subtle and menacing. It lies in the environment of the presidency itself. In the splendid isolation of the White House, the best and the brightest in crisp uniforms and Brooks Brothers pinstripes can, with purpose and convincing logic, expound the virtues of force to fill the voids of doubt that come with such crises. That happened...
Then we had to find 10 committed students who were not afraid to champion traditional values. Next, we had to divert faculty members from their learned pursuits to entreat their sponsorship...
...once Saddam Hussein must be delighted to share the limelight. Eager to divert attention from his rape of Kuwait, the Iraqi leader has tried repeatedly to drag Israel onto center stage in order to convince his fellow Arabs that the enemy is not Iraq but the Zionists and their American backers. Israeli security forces played right into his hands last week when they fired into an angry Palestinian mob on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, killing 19 Palestinians and wounding 140. The deaths, said Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egypt's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, were "Israel's great gift...
...position to severely disrupt the flow. With some effort, the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates River could be used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft missiles in place to defend it from Iraqi bombers. Another, more wasteful proposal is simply to divert feeder rivers into desert areas. U.S. officials are aware that the Iraqi regime worries about a cutoff: in the early days of the crisis, Baghdad pointedly warned Turkey not to tamper with its water...
...were highly visible in the David Souter nomination to the Supreme Court. Was that to divert attention from Souter's ties to John Sununu...