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Eleven days before the election, the President is accused of sexual dalliance with a visitor to the Oval Office--an underage visitor, at that. What's needed, the spin doctor (a coolly cynical Robert De Niro) decrees, is a splendid little war to divert the populace. None being handy, one will have to be invented out of rumor and falsified electronic imagery...
Grossman added that the union would be hesitant to divert its attention to single out individual offenders...
...widening fund-raising investigation that threatens to topple current Teamster president Ron Carey has brought Hoffa closer than ever to reviving the family dynasty. Carey has spent time before a federal grand jury investigating an illegal scheme to divert union money to his campaign during his 1996 re-election bid, in which Hoffa was narrowly defeated. And it's far from certain that Carey will even be allowed to participate in the rerun election scheduled to begin in January. Hoffa, meanwhile, is out campaigning, raising money, plugging a reformist platform and decrying what he describes as the "biggest scandal...
...held earlier in the orientation week for first-years. Last year, students were notified of admission four days into the shopping week. Students who had already grown enamored of other courses, and had often begun the preliminary readings or had purchased textbooks, often did not have the energy to divert their attention back to the seminars...
...taxable gain would be reduced by the amount that prices had risen over the life of the investment. Treasury officials contend they would be forced to erect a whole new bureaucratic apparatus of agents, forms and experts to police the change. The changes could tempt investors to divert money into unproductive investments that nonetheless yield lightly taxed capital gains, like the half-empty office buildings that sprouted before the 1986 reform...