Word: divert
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...President visited the service station to discuss a number of largely ineffectual remedies for pulling down prices, some of which Rove had previously discussed in the staff chiefs' meeting. Bush suspended additional deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to divert that crude to the market. He called for more tax incentives for hybrid cars, fewer environmental hurdles for refinery builders, drilling wells in the Arctic and congressional authority to raise mileage requirements on cars. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who earlier in the week had advised voters to drive slower and get a tune-up, was fronting a Republican proposal...
...Other names are looking to cash in: Sheraton and Marriott have opened high-end Pattaya resorts, and Le Meridien has a project under construction. Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, international p.r. director for Thailand's Tourism Authority, also predicts that the new growth will "divert, if not negate" attention generated by the city's racier side. And while he cautions that any transformation "will have to happen over a number of years," it nonetheless seems that the dubious legacy of the old U.S. airstrip may one day be eclipsed by Suvarnabhumi's economic blessings...
...present time and the other rights through negotiations, we are open to that." Yet the Bush Administration doesn't expect the Iraq discussions will lead to a breakthrough on the nuclear front. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley dismisses Iran's overture as "simply a device by the Iranians to divert pressure that they are feeling in New York...
...overall thrust of the U.S. policy in the region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the ‘Israel Lobby,’” the authors wrote in their introduction. “[No] lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest...
...move wasn’t universally popular across the system. For instance, a senior history major at the system’s Davis campus wrote in a column for the UC-Berkeley student newspaper, the Daily Californian, that divestment would divert funds from reconstruction efforts in the war-torn country...