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...services side, the Senator wants to specialize in elderly affairs, hoping to divert a showdown between the elderly and the other residents of the state. Kraus has also begun a fight for a commission to study ways to reduce Massachusetts over reliance on the property tax, a tax that hits the poor and the elderly out of proportion to their income. Despite Proposition 21/2--a sweeping tax cut passed in 1980. Kraus guesses that property revaluation which often shifted the tax burden from businesses to homes means that 85 percent of Massachusetts homes will pay more property tax than before...
...Nigerian leader has tried to use the two million Ghanaians as scapegoats to divert attention from the economic crises and the corruption charges that could hurt him in the balloting. Indications are that the expulsion has made him popular with almost every sector of his country...
...disappointment stems from the regrettable irresponsibility demonstrated by those Council members who kicked up a fuss before the referendum even began, and, albeit to a lesser extent, from the naivete by The Crimson in failing to expose this as a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the real issue at hand--the need to halt the arms race and interventionism. Jeff Knopf '83, for Radcliffe-Harvard Peace Alliance
...take out a CHINS petition meets with a probation officer, who decides if a petition is appropriate. If so, the County Bar Association appoints a lawyer for the child, and a preliminary hearing is held roughly two weeks after the petition is field. Often the judge decides to divert the case out of court into a social service agency. But status offenders have not been removed altogether from the Massachusetts court system...
...final weeks of the '82 campaign, the Reagan Administration was something like a weatherman who forecasts sunny skies while it is raining outside. It appeared temporarily oblivious to a $155 billion deficit projected for fiscal 1983 and attempted to divert public concern from a 10.1 % unemployment rate with the promise of better days ahead. But elections and optimism go hand in hand, regardless of political party. What the White House must now confront is a panoply of politically charged issues it kept under wraps during the campaign season...