Word: sidetrack
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...forum was billed as an opportunity to push forward the curricular review in the wake of the announced resignations of Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, which threaten to sidetrack the review process...
...heavily on this issue, very little has actually been accomplished. Presently, only four to five percent of arriving shipping containers are physically inspected, a number that needs to increase no matter who manages the terminals. It is our hope that isolationist, and perhaps racist, sentiments are not permitted to sidetrack our leaders from this vital issue, that port security is improved, and that just commerce—in this case, the sale of private shipping operations—is inhibited no further...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) will hold an “emergency student convention” tomorrow to push forward the curricular review, as resignations by top administrators threaten to sidetrack the review process...
...Harvard Salient contributed to public debate when it reprinted four of the 12 controversial cartoons originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, its efforts would have been truly commendable. As the Salient chose instead to sidetrack meaningful discussion with the cartoons’ repetitive and incendiary republication on its back page, however, such commendation is hardly warranted. While no authority should limit the ability of the Salient (or any publication) to publish provocative material, the paper’s decision to republish the Danish cartoons was in poor taste and had improper motivations and should therefore not be congratulated...
...needs to focus on Davis' record - the state's enormous budget deficit, sluggish economy and last year's energy crisis. For his part, Davis has zeroed in on Simon's potential weaknesses: he's a conservative, pro-life Republican with little experience. Worse, Simon has allowed Davis to sidetrack him on several meaningless issues. In April, Davis released his income tax returns and called on Simon to do the same. Davis questioned whether Simon had paid state income taxes in California. Simon refused to release his returns and spent two weeks fighting Davis on the issue. The press spent...