Word: diverted
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...Prowler helped divert the Libyan-fired SA-5 Gammon missiles that touched off the skirmishing. After the incoming missiles were detected, the Prowler's five underwing jamming devices mimicked the radar signature of U.S. aircraft, creating dozens of false targets at a safe distance from U.S. ships. Meanwhile, the U.S.S. Ticonderoga's advanced electronic Aegis system scanned the gulf for enemy planes...
...centering the debate on the penalty issue, the NRA can divert our attention from the rest of the bill and its potential to increase gun-related crimes. The NRA must hide its true motivation and bury the fact that additional violent crime is the price which society must pay in exchange for easing restrictions on--and subsequently increasing the profits of--handgun dealers...
Further muddying the debate, is that some advocates of increasing the Midgetman's size actually do not want the missile but hope to divert funds to the MX. Amid the confused crossfire, Washington is in danger of losing sight of the basic strategic issue involved: a small mobile missile can help make America's land-based arsenal more secure while at the same time making the nuclear balance more stable...
...concern of several fellow committee members is that the internship program would divert funds from more worthy projects such as expanding the fellowship program. But Heimert, who currently is in South Africa on fellowship business, says anybody who argues that the fellowship program will loose funds "doesn't know a crock of shit...
...ACSR became a subject of intense scrutiny two years ago when it recommended that Harvard divest of it $400 million investment in companies which do business in South Africa. When the recommendation went unheeded, many charged the University with using the ACSR to divert sentiment for divestment...