11.   And the hubbub deflects attention from the fact that planning has all but collapsed in New York, the city that introduced zoning.

12.   Because of that, the Orioles will have to win to deflect attention away from their payroll.

13.   Besides being unfair, that would simply deflect public attention from the real issue.

14.   Blass is someone whose savoir-faire and good looks, combined with a dry wit, have helped to deflect attention away from himself.

15.   A sense is growing in some business quarters that the sheer ubiquity of computers has deflected attention from more traditional sciences and skills.

16.   But a sense is growing in some business quarters that the sheer ubiquity of computers has deflected attention from more traditional sciences and skills.

17.   But as national-security and economic crises deflect attention from schooling, educators can use time away from the national spotlight to let reforms already prescribed take root.

18.   But even needed control over this kind of money must not deflect attention from the more critical need to control the big money flowing to campaigns.

19.   But critics of the strike say that President Clinton launched strikes merely to punish Iraq or deflect attention from impeachment hearings.

20.   But in the end, the Clinton sex scandal did more to deflect attention from the company than all of its carefully orchestrated spin-doctoring.