Word: diverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stone walls across the wadies to delay flash floods. Trapped by the walls, the water sank into the ground, depositing silt that built up fertile soil. To trap even more water, the Naba-taeans built good-sized stone dams across the larger wadies; they cut channels along hilltops to divert water to fields that could use it best. To supply
Where women were concerned, Louis combined a grasshopper's attention span with the appetite of a tiger. Pompadour, who suffered from tuberculosis, desperately sought to divert him to less athletic pursuits, like amateur theatricals, at which she was gifted, and small dinner parties where the king could "pour his own coffee" and see a few friends. It was a great relief when, as her adviser, the Abbe de Bernis, related with exquisite courtliness, the King's "friendship took the place of gallantry." But then Pompadour had to be doubly on guard against being driven from favor by more...
...part, Soviet accusations of alleged American espionage have been motivated by the Kremlin's desire to divert domestic discontent against foreign scapegoats. By arousing fear of foreign "spies," the Kremlin has sought to break down the attraction of Western culture for the Soviet people...
Weakened Willingness. The U.S. feels that if the Russians want to trade, they should be forced to use up their meager gold reserves and not be granted what they want-long-term credits. Such credits would release massive Soviet investment for military needs and divert free-world resources from aid to underdeveloped nations...
Executives will also divert much of the fresh cash to expand and improve their plants. McGraw-Hill's annual survey of capital spending plans, out this week, predicts that businessmen's capital budgets in 1964 will jump 6% to $42 billion. Other economists foresee increases in capital spending up to 8%-which would help to keep the expansion going...