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Within 48 hours or so, Elkin puts his hero through permutations of paranoia. No matter how his language prattles, jokes, howls, sings, the commissioner cannot quite divert himself from the knowledge that "life goes on." Whatever his other failings, Bobbo, like the best of Elkin's past characters, triumphs in the end as a world-class monologist...
Turk said that yet another source of improvement funding should be the "slum lords," who divert much of their funds away from maintaining their buildings, allowing them to deteriorate. "It's all a matter of enforcement," Turk said...
First, it would divert resources away from efforts to resolve domestic problems. It is absurd to attempt to solve the rest of the world's problems while we are in such bad shape ourselves. We need to address our own domestic crises -- homelessness, a recessing economy, a deteriorating environment, a wasteful and ineffective health cars system, a drug epidemic...
Local leaders reacted to Bush's plan to divert up to $15 billion in grant programs by forming a coalition of Massachusetts mayors to fight the proposal. The group met Saturday to discuss the threat and to come up with a plan of action...
...unlikely to succeed. Allied commanders vowed to start the main offensive when they are good and ready. Nor did they have to divert any air power. In fact, planes swarmed to attack Iraqi armor in such numbers that they got in one another's way. But enough U.S. and allied planes were still available to carry out a full schedule of attacks throughout Kuwait and Iraq. Militarily, said General Norman Schwarzkopf, top allied commander in the gulf area, the Khafji battles were about as significant "as a mosquito on an elephant...