Word: deflective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audio studios for the U.S. and the Soviets. Both nations have networks of sonar buoys guyed to sea floors and connected by cable to onshore listening stations. Both meticulously map the crucial topography of the ocean bottom. Both continually analyze the thermoclines, or pockets of differing underwater temperature, that deflect and distort sound waves...
Pipes viewed Gorbachev's proposal as an attempt by the Soviet leader to simultaneously deflect criticism by liberals who have been urging faster reforms and conservatives who fear the erosion of their remaining power...
...ready as petitioner seems to be to assume the worst about those in the academic community. Although it is possible that some evaluators may become less candid as the possibility of disclosure increases, others may simply ground their evaluations in specific examples and illustrations in order to deflect potential claims of bias or unfairness. Not all academics will hesitate to stand up and be counted when they evaluate their peers...
...million Rumanians on the Soviet side of the border to long for home. Now, with democratic elections scheduled for April, some Moldavians have called for reunification with Rumania. Meanwhile, Rumania's newly recreated National Peasant Party has called for the return of the lost territory. To deflect just such demands, Moscow promised it would open the long-frozen border with Rumania for tourism and trade. Last week it announced that visas are no longer required for brief visits...
...ended up with a bullet in his abdomen. It was hard to imagine that anyone would inflict injuries so severe that he would need two operations, ten days in intensive care and six weeks in the hospital, that he would damage his bowels, gall bladder and liver merely to deflect suspicion from himself...