Word: diverted
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...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...
...Because they won't work and even if they did, the survivors will envy the dead. Shelters divert our attention from the real issue, which is preventing nuclear conflict. I think civil defense is no defense...
...manuscripts must have been found in somebody's attic, like Susan Peck, Late of Boston. And there are mountains of dull and dutiful books dedicated to teaching children everything from fishing to fission. Mostly, there are far too many books whose size and gaudy color will no doubt divert the uncertain shopper's eye from the enduring children's classics. But among the 1,600 children's books published in the U.S. last year are a few that are the best in years...