Word: deflected
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...Giuliani is running for President, and he has apparently made a tactical decision to thunder loudly about terrorism, perhaps to deflect from his personal life and his liberal record on social issues - which an internal campaign memo termed potentially "insurmountable" last year. (The memo was leaked to the New York Daily News.) The more he can remind people of his performance on 9/11, the better off he is, says G.O.P. pollster Luntz. "You cannot underestimate the impact of having seen him on television hour after hour dealing with the tragedy," he says. "That gives him a level of credibility that...
Expanding into new products also helps deflect the competitive threat. "ING Direct is under pressure, no matter what they say, to sell more to their customer base," says Chris Hitchings, an analyst who covers ING for Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in London. By offering checking accounts and online bill payment, ING Direct gives its customers more reasons to stay put: once they set all that up, they are less likely to switch banks for half a percentage point of interest...
...overall U.S. commander in Iraq. "At that point, Pappas just did not seem to be stable, but who could blame him after what he had just been through," says Karpinski, who was demoted after Abu Ghraib but has claimed that she was made a scapegoat in order to deflect blame from higher-ranking officers (She has since left the military.) "He was incoherent, maybe just running on adrenaline, but he would unpredictably shift from one topic to another...
Guest accused Harvard of using the parity policy as a ploy to deflect attention from its low wages, adding that the wages are too low even if they don't violate the parity policy...
Guest accused Harvard of using the parity policy as a ploy to deflect attention from its low wages, adding that the wages are too low even if they don't violate the parity policy...