Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remember when the U.S. attacked Kosovo, and everybody accused the President of "wagging the dog" - attacking a Central European country to divert public attention away from a sex scandal? Well, it turns out Bubba may have just been trying to get back in the good graces of his wife. At least that's the history of the Balkan conflict according to the First Lady's latest biographer, Gail Sheehy. In her forthcoming book "Hillary's Choice," Sheehy says that at the height of Monicagate, an enraged and humiliated Hillary went eight months without talking to her husband, before calling...
...this upheaval was inevitable, ever since a thin red line was drawn, separating what was known as haute couture ("high sewing") and prt--porter ("ready-to-wear"). Yet the walls couldn't stand forever, and as more designers like Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren divert energy to lower-end lines, high fashion is in danger of becoming a sterile status symbol. On the other hand, many new designers working outside of the houses associated with haute couture are doing work that challenges the very term haute couture. This is the "apocalyptic" upheaval that causes many to predict...
...that's not the end of the story. Banking on the probability that the giant mammoth popsicle would pique the interest of the international community--or at least divert some attention away from the vodka-loving President and the ongoing civil war in Chechnya--the Russian scientists in charge of the excavation decided to stage a bit of a show...
...lousy manager who was causing staff defections. She said (and only reluctantly when she realized there was going to be a story critical of her) that it was because she had asked him to stop making sexual advances. He then said she was making that up to divert attention from her bad performance and that he had a petition signed by 36 staff members attesting to it. She then contended he had trumped up the management excuse--and produced the petition--after he got unjustifiably concerned that she was going to go public with her accusations. Baucus has denied making...
That she does--desperately. The Indian government launched a program to restore the river in 1986. In Varanasi--where 60,000 people gather daily, most for a holy dip--pumps were set up to divert sewage to a new treatment plant downstream. The pumps often stop because of electricity shortages, however, and the treatment facility is ineffective...