Word: diverted
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This shrewd collaboration may be calculated to keep the party from losing the initiative and divert nationalist sentiment into controllable channels. But the tactic is not without risk. Concerned that 90% of the Popular Front members are Estonian, Russians who live in the Baltic republic have formed their own "international" movement. Estonian leader Valjas has urged Popular Front members to "avoid aggravating nationalist disputes...
Harmon was also perturbed by student reaction. He noted that the money for the kiosk came from a $100,000 grant from the DeWitt Wallace Foundation, and was specifically earmarked for renovation. Harmon emphasized that Princeton "did not divert funds from dryers, books for the library, scholarships, or other worthy purposes...
...project has caused a deep rift in the biomedical community, largely because of fears that it would divert scarce research funds. Mapping and sequencing the genome is expected to take at least 15 years and to cost $200 million annually. Another concern: Which federal agency is to lead the effort, the Department of Energy or the National Institutes of Health? Biomedical researchers have been worried that DOE, which entered the project out of interest in the effects of radiation on DNA, would stress technological achievements at the expense of scientific discovery. DOE scientists, on the other hand, have complained that...
...good students of politics know, it's not the numbers which matter but the public's perception of the numbers. And it seems now as though the Kennedy School, in its attempt to divert attention from the political successes of one of its former lecturers, has adopted a "new direction" that is nothing but a cloak with which to disguise the fact...
...Heyward has changed his mind about Hart, perhaps because the Senator is being interviewed by ABC. Bradley and Zirinsky are not happy; they could have got to Hart first. Now they rush over, divert Hart from an imminent interview with a Spanish station and bag him for Bradley...