Word: divert
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Mission to Mars "Bush's Mars plan is an election-year strategy: a weapon of mass distraction designed to divert our attention from the economy." Gail Moore San Francisco...
...Bush's Mars plan is an election-year strategy: a weapon of mass distraction designed to divert our attention from the economy." Gail Moore San Francisco...
Desire is complicated. Arousal, by contrast, is pretty straightforward: fill the penile arteries with blood or divert blood to the vagina and clitoris, and you're there. "Once the brain gets turned on--however it gets turned on--it's a relatively simple concept to increase blood flow," says Dr. Alan Altman, a specialist in menopause and sexuality at Harvard Medical School. In men, a chemical that facilitates the flow is vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, a hormone that also directs the expansion and contraction of smooth muscles in the gastrointestinal tract...
...miserly attitude toward foreign aid. Regimes that do not feel compelled to provide sensible labor protections for their workers are not going to feel any more pressed about providing the public infrastructure and services that would raise their citizens’ living standards. After all, why divert resources that they can use to strengthen their control over their citizens and enrich themselves? The now deposed Suharto regime in Indonesia, for example, was notorious for squandering public funds on subsidies for businesses owned by President Suharto’s children. Developed nations like the United States ought to donate money...
...Even if Romney’s initiative never leads to a regrettable policy change, it will divert precious time and resources from the state’s more important business: creating jobs, improving public education and resolving the budget crisis. Romney would do better to turn his attention toward more pressing concerns and to realize that death is neither a practical nor moral punishment...