Word: diverted
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...selfsame uncle seizes his wife and shakes her furiously when, while promenading, she gazes about her at a glorious sunset. Clara finds this reaction extreme but correct: "Most authorities do maintain that a lady ought not to divert her gaze from the direction in which she is walking." Still, her uncle need not have raged; "a word-at most a frown -would have sufficed...
...philosopher-"whose trade it is not to do any thing, but to observe every thing." Accordingly, he discusses the intellectual underpinnings of government, education, religion, even artistic freedom (the state, he wrote, should give "entire liberty to all those who . . . would attempt, without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing"). Among his opinions...
American experts fear the safeguards are inadequate. The IAEA is understaffed and lacks experience in inspecting full cycle systems. Washington also worries that Bonn may have as little success monitoring reactors in Brazil as Ottawa did in India; the Indians were able to divert nuclear materials from a Canadian-supplied power reactor in order to explode their first atom bomb a year ago last May. Moreover, Brazil's professions that it would use its nuclear facilities only for peaceful purposes encounter some skepticism; Brasilia has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and there have been persistent reports that...
...organization of ex-offenders. Although he was able to profit from meeting Welty, Brown knows that such encounters are rare. "Treatment is of no use to most people in today's prisons. The answer is almost to leave the prisons alone-almost benign neglect," he says. "Then divert massive resources to this society's disadvantaged children, the ones who are going to commit tomorrow's crime...
...this clash of separate and distinct interest occurs our system of decision-making demands that through creative conflict and compromise difference be resolved. In the Kennedy Library fight the "community" used every avenue available (but not compromise) and won that battle. In this present argument concerning the attempt to divert the Red Line down Mt. Auburn St. to Brattle St. Harvard has taken a position (which is its right) but will not use the tactics that the "community" used in the Kennedy Library battle...