Word: smokescreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more Quayle is derided for trying to address that need, however imperfectly, the less future politicians will try. Already H. Ross Perot thinks the word "principles" is nothing but a smokescreen to conceal one's values and positions...
...bisexual people and persons with physical disabilities is small and that this has impeded the school's efforts to integrate its faculty. And somehow Stanford Law School has managed to hire a faculty of which 29 percent are women and minorities. The "pool" argument is really a smokescreen for attitudes which reflect the old boy network of legal academia...
...Democrat Ronald Dellums, organizer of the petition, who argues, "The Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to declare war. This situation is too grave for one person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor of constitutional law, agrees with this. Tribe dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that the framers deliberately rejected any scheme that would give...