Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tripp's deposition testimony to lawyers for Paula Jones. Steve Smith, a longtime Clinton friend and adviser, is the former president of Madison Savings & Loan, the institution at the center of Whitewater. After being targeted by Starr, Smith entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to divert government-backed loan proceeds. But he insists that lawyers on Starr's staff wrote out a prepared script for him to read before the grand jury. "It contained things I had told them time and time again were not true," he says. "Any allegation that we prepared a script...
...shows that 60% want the U.N. to authorize the use of force and only 38% think the U.S. should go it alone. If Clinton does send in the planes, 71% of those polled believe it will be because it is in the best interest of the nation, not to divert attention from Washington scandals. The real gut check for Clinton would come if several days of bombing failed to change the fundamental equation. Saddam, his weapons of mass destruction and his Republican Guard would still be there. The U.S. could simply declare "mission accomplished" and stop. But Saddam could emerge...
...higher benefits. Opponents claim that pensions are too risky to entrust to the private market, and that private plans undermine the social solidarity of a public program. Furthermore, they point out that privatization plans have high "transition costs." Because current workers provide benefits for current retirees, if workers divert funds into their own accounts, there would not be enough money for current retirees. Consequently, all privatization plans include hefty tax increases for as many as 75 years...
These companies are pouring record sums into capital improvements, adding fast chair lifts and such amusements as skating rinks and snow-tubing shoots to attract more nonskiing vacationers or at least divert them while their partners, spouses and children are on the slopes. The resorts aren't just competing against one another. Leisure dollars are also coveted by the cruise industry, which has spent billions upgrading its capacity, as well as by theme parks and other family destinations...
Eleven days before the election, the President is accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...