Word: smokescreening
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...wake of Vellucci's statement late last week that he would continue to press for a relaxation of the condo codes for the Linnaean and Washington tenants, the mayor's five-part housing initiative announced earlier in the week seems only a smokescreen for his desire to cling to the condo issue as a source of political strength...
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S "New Federalism," unveiled in his State of the Union message last week, contains little that is new or encouraging. It is merely a new Providential packaging of repressive economic policies in fancy language, the latest in a series of smokescreen to defer responsibility for the devastating impact of his policies on this nation's poor. We urge Congress to stand up to the Administration by rejecting its latest initiative. If it does not, the President's string of deceptive attacks on America's needy will only grow longer and cause more suffering...
Negotiations can be merely a smokescreen, of course: like the bargaining that the Japanese were conducting with the U.S. before Pearl Harbor. Sometimes negotiations are only empty dances of punctilio: at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, it took the delegates six months to decide in what order they would enter and be seated in the negotiating chamber; the U.S. and North Viet Nam held similarly intricate discussions about the shape of the table in Paris. Negotiations can produce their own tragedies, as Versailles did, as Yalta did. But without negotiation, things tend to fall more quickly of their...
...family retained a New York City law firm and the private investigator to look into the matter. The Runkles also commissioned their own forensic study. Said Janice's father Robert Runkle: "As far as we are concerned, the speculations about her state of mind are strictly a smokescreen. Her being depressed just doesn't make sense." Runkle's funeral was Thursday. Campo did not attend. Said he: "I'll send her a bunch of flowers...
...continue to advocate total divestiture of all investments in banks lending money to the South African government or companies operating with or in South Africe. Meanwhile, in abstaining on measure like the one at Mobil, the Corporation chooses to hide behind a smokescreen of excuses, citing items of grammar or careless wording that supposedly render resolutions infeasible or impracticable. The Corporation purports to consider individual stockholder issues seriously, sticking to its policy of considering each one on an ad hoc basis. Since 1972, when it created the ACSR, the Corporation has delegated to that committee the gathering of facts...