Word: diversionism
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The missing $160,000 was due the Jimmy Fund, which raises money for cancer research and treatment, particularly of young victims. The resulting publicity has been enormous, if predictable. Recent Harvard graduates, with opportunities at six-figure incomes, linked to the diversion of funds intended for a children's charity...
Dulic Muhamed is commander of one of the Bosnian army's diversion units: his 100 or so men make feints at Serb positions, giving other troops the chance to surprise the enemy. He says he continues to fight "because there is nothing else left to do."
Resolving a standoff between environmentalists and agribusiness, the Interior Department announced a tentative agreement with Florida and that state's vegetable farmers and sugar industry on a $465 million plan to restore the Everglades. Phosphorus pollution from fertilizer and the diversion of water by overdevelopment have contributed to the transformation...
Studies of latchkey kids conducted by family sociologist Hyman Rodman of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro suggest that they are not measurably worse off than other kids, at least in terms of self-esteem and behavior in school. But Thomas Long, a Bethesda, Maryland, child psychologist who has...
Simultaneously, though, the Supreme Court refused to review a lower-court ruling that overturned the 1990 conviction of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. He and Oliver North, whose conviction was also reversed, were the main architects of the secret sales of weapons to Iran and diversion of profits to...