Word: diverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more of an impassioned listener than a player. "Why take music lessons," she reasoned, "when I could play anything I liked and it all came out so beautifully on that marvelous thing?" With four lavish homes, a private jet plane and a blue book full of friends to divert her, she still makes sure that she has time, interest and money enough left over for the symphony. The Music for Young America concerts are her proudest philanthropy. "I've had greater satisfaction out of this-," she says, "than anything since the feeding thing in the Depression...
...Tuesday's Faculty meeting, Reuben A. Brower, professor of English and Master of Adams House, said that the seminar program did not solve the important problem of improving the large lecture courses in the College. The seminar program might unduly divert Faculty resources from the General Education program, he cautioned...
...Buyers scribbled on programs: nice cut, good lines, but can it be copied easily? Will it go in Passaic? The press looked frantically for trends: everything old? Anything borrowed? How about a trend toward the old and borrowed? Customers clapped hands in delight at dresses they loathed, hoping to divert rivals' attention from the ones they really coveted...
...sent his long and loudly heralded tax proposals to Congress, and they reflected Caplin's thinking. The "preferences and special provisions" of the tax code, said the President, "discourage taxpayer cooperation and compliance by adding inequities and complexities that affect similarly situated taxpayers in wholly different ways. They divert energies from productive activities to tax avoidance. Taxpayers with equal incomes who are burdened with unequal tax liabilities are certain to seek still further preferences and exceptions...
These weapons, moreover, divert vital resources from the buildup of conventional forces to repel any non-nuclear attack on Europe. As Dean Acheson has pointed out, England, France and Germany could gain far greater control over day-by-day alliance strategy simply by contributing a larger share of NATO's conventional forces...