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...also has sinister ideological and political overtones. By branding the universities "producers of unemployment," the Giscard government is attempting to transfer the responsibility for unemployment onto the unemployed themselves. As a result of the current recession, France is suffering its highest unemployment rates since World War II. To divert public attention from the roots of this unemployment in France's social and economic system, the Giscard government has blamed the educational training of French students for their unemployment. The educational reform should thus be seen as a maneuver by the Giscard government to defend its economic policies against criticism from...
Tezo said he hopes to divert most of the Memorial Drive traffic to Soldiers Field Drive on the Allston side of the Charles River by utilizing detour signs...
...Dick, 50, was said to be troubled by Liz's reported outings recently in Switzerland, on the arm of a Maltese advertising executive. So, after a quick reunion with her husband, Liz abruptly packed off to California. Said a friend of the couple: "The only thing that could divert a divorce would be another reconciliation." All right now, once more with feeling...
...cost of advertising in TIME Canada and the Canadian Reader's Digest. The two publications together accounted for one-quarter of the estimated $75 million in ad revenues placed in Canada's 21 leading magazines last year. Obviously, supporters of the bill hope that it will divert these advertising dollars into Canadian-owned publications. Said Secretary of State J. Hugh Faulkner, the minister in charge of cultural affairs, when he announced the bill: "It is my hope and expectation that the decision of the government will result in the creation of a Canadian newsmagazine...
...declare bankruptcy shortly after graduation simply because their student loans exceed their assets. The Nunn subcommittee is expected to recommend prohibiting many schools from making Government-guaranteed student loans, and making it a federal crime for a school to falsify data to obtain grants and loans, or to divert such funds for personal...