Word: diversionism
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Instead, it charges that Spengler removed Garsd from his position as manager of an EEPC study of Spanish electric companies because he complained about an improper diversion of that project's funds.
The gold is media saturation, not great reviews. In the movie business, the still, small voice of the critic is . . . still small. The movie-critic TV shows -- Siskel & Ebert and their clones -- have some influence, at least as consumer alerts, because they devote much of their time to running film...
IN the area of foreign policy, Bush is equally dangerous. He stood by as arms went to the Ayatollah, and his role in the diversion of funds to the contras is suspect.
Given these preoccupations, it was probably inevitable ("There's a pattern in things") that DeLillo would get around to the assassination, that nexus of | paranoia. But it is difficult to see exactly what Libra adds to this event, aside from some temporary diversion. Its argument, that the plot to kill...
Another chapter gives a refreshing insight into Roy Eisenhardt, the progressive president of the Oakland A's--one of the few baseball executives who cares more about their players and the state of the game than about making money from it. Angell shows that Eisenhardt considers baseball not as merely...