So what does this say about bad-faith attempts to sell lousy investments through a smoke screen?
In my virtual interview, Chris Wallace sees through the smoke screen and goes after the real issues.
"Cutting through the smoke screen of objections, the overriding issue is that of the possible effect on house prices, " he said.
Across town, at the current Planned Parenthood clinic, CEO Sarah Stoesz says all the talk of limits on the ban is nothing but a smoke screen.
By increasing and integrating ads across the consumer experience, Facebook has cast a smoke screen between users and functionality (socializing, user content and news).
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But Ms Morillas believes the Catalan government is using the issue of independence, and these elections, as a "smoke screen" for the region's wider economic problems.
If Dr Lammers and Dr Galinsky are right, the sense which some powerful people seem to have that different rules apply to them is not just a convenient smoke screen.
There is a huge smoke screen being put up - not by the Catholic church, but by the media and those who say that contraceptives will solve all these problems.
Critics, it should be noted, generally insist that this is a smoke screen, that the "real" aims of the organization the acquisition of political power, or financial gain, or new recruits are hidden.
"These charges are so removed from reality that they may well be a smoke screen behind which the Venezuelan government is planning to eliminate Capriles, " Reich said in a Twitter post Sunday.
Dr. ED KETZ (Smeal College of Business, Penn State): Much of the criticism against fair value accounting has been a smoke screen so that we don't hold bankers responsible for the mistakes they make.
But I believe the majority of the American people -- and indeed, the majority of Congress -- members of both parties in Congress -- will see this for what it is -- a tobacco industry smoke screen.
Investors would do well to look very closely at the way Microsoft has squandered its most precious asset and how this flurry of activity is nothing more than a smoke screen to hide the fact that Microsoft is sinking under its own ineptitude.
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Even some Republicans, like Senator Alfonse D'Amato, embrace the measure--which is being considered as a separate bill this week--which says, in effect, we will go along with this gratuitous marriage thing, but only if you are not using it as a smoke screen for wholesale discrimination against homosexuals.
To attack Egypt against the reasoned urging of the world, and under cover of a smoke-screen of obfuscatory statements, can arouse no confident support in the country.
The pilots saw a warning on their computer screen telling them there was smoke inside one of the electrical compartments, the airline said.
He also noted in a patent filing that the process allowed the blue-screen procedure to cope with glassware, cigarette smoke, blowing hair and motion blur which had all caused problems for earlier efforts.
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The Public Theater's LuEsther Hall venue, where the show opened Tuesday, has been transformed into a beaming night club with strobe lights, flat-screen displays, wall-to-wall digital projections, artificial smoke and a DJ perched high above the dance floor.
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