Word: diverted
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...rather than wait into the 1990s for the full system to be operational. In his later talk, the President in effect said no to that demand also: "I know there are those who are getting a bit antsy, but to deploy systems of limited effectiveness now would deter or divert limited funds and delay our main research." Critics on the opposite side are meanwhile seeking to do that by chopping at the 1986 SDI budget...
...main attraction is a summer outdoor repertory of three Shakespeare plays, usually unburdened by arty directorial concepts. The costumes are velvety, embroidered and heraldic. The lighting is simple. The three-story stage, with its doors and windows and stairs and balcony, serves as the set. The actors do not divert the apparent meaning of the text. This season's As You Like It does not put its actors in clown face or rely on a piece of white cloth to stand for everything from snowflakes to a marriage tent, as the Royal Shakespeare Company has done. Nor does Ashland...
...emphasize the ongoing tensions, Peking and Taipei differed sharply over what motivated the pilot, Wang Hsi-chueh, 57, to divert the plane to Canton. Wang told a press conference in Peking that he had been homesick and wanted to see his father and brothers. Officials in Taiwan, however, claimed that the defection of the $48,000-a-year pilot was the result of coercion and had been carefully planned. They pointed to the well-drilled precision with which Chinese army troops surrounded the jet when it landed at Canton and the presence of television cameras as evidence that Wang...
...personal power, Likudnik David Levy has been trying to sabotage the unity government. At last month's Herut party convention, which is the core of the Likud bloc, Levy formed an ad hoc alliance with Ariel Sharon to divert delegates' attention away from the agenda and undermine Shamir's leadership...
...long- range surface-to-air missiles. Weighing about five tons apiece, the 54- ft.- long weapons are designed primarily to engage slow-moving targets like B-52 bombers. But Moscow was doubtless unhappy to note that speedy U.S. fighters could not only outmaneuver the SA-5s but also, evidently, divert them...