Word: deflective
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...Saudi task forces launched an assault across the feared "Saddam line" of fortifications into eastern Kuwait. In the northward plunge along the coastline they had an unenviable double duty: to deceive Baghdad into thinking that all of the allies were massed for a frontal assault, and to deflect Iraqi defenders from U.S. Marine crossings farther west. The Saudi-led Arab forces "did a terrific job" in breaching "a very, very tough barrier system," Schwarzkopf said, noting that they had been "required to fight the kind of fight that the Iraqis wanted them to." Some Kuwaitis in the Saudi force kissed...
...free market, except the oil industry." Harvard Medical School psychologist Steven Berglas, who works with corporations that suffer from image problems, concurs. "People resent powerful entities that control necessities like oil," he explains. "We can actually gain psychological control by hating them." Berglas also suspects that some civilians deflect their anti-Iraq feelings toward Big Oil, a more accessible target. "You and I are not flying F-15s," he says. "But we can really be ticked off at the oil companies for supposedly reaping profits off misery." And never mind whether it makes sense...
...early to say whether the Pentagon's grand doctrine of fighting superior numbers with superior technology will ultimately prevail. It may yet be possible to foil the world's most sophisticated -- and expensive -- weapons with countermeasures, some of which are literally dirt cheap. They include burning smoke pots to deflect heat-seeking missiles, draping targets with pictures of bomb craters to discourage further attack, and hunkering down in caves and sand dunes to wait out the blitz. In the end, no electronic marvel is going to liberate Kuwait. That is a job that will probably fall to the ultimate biological...
...presented what he called a "noble agenda." It amounted to a genteel strain of liberalism emphasizing improved education, health care and environmental measures. He rarely used the terms black or African American and refused to call Helms racist. Instead, he labeled Helms "divisive," a euphemism Gantt hoped would deflect polarization along racial lines...
Partly to deflect the growing unhappiness, trustees of the College Board last week revised the SAT, although less radically than some critics had wanted. Starting in 1994, the SAT and its companion Achievement Test will be known as SAT-I and SAT-II.The former will test verbal skills and reasoning ability in math; the latter, knowledge of certain specific subjects, such as history and politics. SAT-I will include longer critical reading passages and more questions to test students' understanding of the material...