Word: divert
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...Crews for the Hueys, which cost only $500 an hour, will be trained in Colombia, whose military has flown Bell birds for years. There is concern in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the U.S. government that sending the more costly and complicated Blackhawks will require Colombia to divert drug-fighting dollars to their maintenance or--more likely--force the U.S. to pick up the tab. "These are the best helicopters in our Army," a U.S. Army officer says, "and keeping them flying takes lots of training, lots of work and lots of money...
While Harvard has traditionally resisted creating formalized business education programs because of the College's liberal arts focus, the CEEM track record suggests that a new technology institute is unlikely to divert large numbers of students from other areas of study...
TIME's economists were unanimous, however, in arguing that the pressures of the present should not divert attention from the big challenge of the future: aging populations that can't expect adequate support in retirement from moribund social-security systems. If anything, businesses, tax regimes and pension schemes need to change faster to meet those burdens...
...newly-created position was created to divert the pressure of administration off of the three Faculty member-team which leads the class. Dearborn says his own presence has allowed the professors and TFs to concentrate more on academics...
Over intersession, I reveled in the opportunity to watch the biggest game of the year without anything else to divert my attention. And when I turned on the pre-game on Jan. 31, I started to learn about the St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans. After years of following football I watched the sport in complete ignorance. I had no idea who many of the players were and many of the people I recognized, I remembered in different uniforms. The Green Bay Packers and Denver Broncos were nowhere to be found. The consequence of rules intended to reward teams...