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The good news for AltaVista is that while it was distracted by its run against AOL, Yahoo! and MSN, other search sites have been experimenting with a bunch of interesting new business models.

Boeing had a ghastly 1998, reporting its first loss in 50 years and writing off $4 billion, partly because it was distracted by implementing its merger with McDonnell Douglas.So the things that are so impressive about today's mergers their size, complexity and downright daring could count against them if the economy turns down.

By now it was distracted by emerging problems in its core PC business.

Peter Navarro: The Bush administration put up with unfair trade because it was distracted by the war on terrorism and because of its blind ideological commitment to free trade, regardless of the unfair trading practices adopted by our trading partners.

In the first place, it was distracted from many other things that are going on in the world.

The Kanawha-Charleston Health Departmen'tdidn't move fast enough to combat hepatitis because it was distracted by the fight over the needle exchange, said Dr. Angie Settle, the CEO and executive director of West Virginia Health Right, a free health care clinic in Charleston.

Another customer says, "it is distracting, exceptionally loud in my ear, and very annoying".

"It was distracting," Lisicki said.

"It was distracting for an academic lab," Dr. Church said.

In 2006, he closed his mall retail store because it was distracting him from selling online.

It was distracting and drew away from the incredible Russian backdrop.