Word: smokescreen
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...That's all bogus because Harvetta knows that I didn't do anything wrong," Osborne said. "I think that may even be a smokescreen to direct attention away from the issue which is, 'Did Harvetta herself drive after she was told by a member of the University not to do so?' That has nothing to do with...
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While faculty committees allegedly oversee mostaspects of College life, in some case thegoverning role of these professors in little morethan an official smokescreen...
...famed 'approaches to knowledge' is eithera. a smokescreen: b. a myth; or c. a pipe dreamthat the Faculty has," he says...
...member of the high command: "We can play with that nicely." Indeed, Haiti's strongmen appear to enjoy "playing" with the Clinton brigades. A Cedras adviser claims that when the military agreed to negotiate with Aristide at Governors Island in New York last July, "the whole thing was a smokescreen." He continues, "We wanted to get the sanctions lifted. That's why we went along. But we never had any intention of really agreeing to Governors Island, as I'm sure everyone can now figure out for themselves. We were playing for time." (Aristide himself never liked the U.N. plan...