Word: smokescreen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After observing Bok for four years, I see him as a symbol of the narrow-minded bureaucracy that pervades Harvard. His public persona is a smokescreen, given to dazzling us with occasional appearances on a one-to-one level but eschewing any systematic contact with undergraduates...
While the University recognized the separation decree as a smokescreen to divert attention from the proposed government restructuring plan and issued no official comment, students and student publications responded to the vote with sarcasm and derision...
...that were its primary goal. Of course, all farmers have a vested interest in keeping their animals in good shape. Nor do government inspectors take a kindly view of farmers who try to sell sick animals for public consumption. The health provisions of the bill are redundant--a smokescreen for the introduction of vague regulations calling for "sufficient" or "adequate" environmental conditions and "humane treatment" and the threat of $1000 fines...
...Africans, by including a review of Harvard's educational programs on South Africa. The educational program seems to be a sound one, having received the approval of Black South African notables such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Their approval, however, has been contingent upon it not being used as a smokescreen to divert attention from the question of divestment and that is exactly what the administration will be doing by bringing it up on Saturday...
...administration contends that Ortega's offer to restore suspended civil liberties is merely a smokescreen designed to undercut the U.S.-backed Contras and fool Congress as a vote nears on renewing military...