Word: diverter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hiller concocts elaborate electronic toys to amuse the boy and an equally complex running fairy tale to divert him from his loss. Their unsentimental relationship is developed with a clarity that makes a shining contrast with the instinctive violence of their criminal associates and the devilish complexity of the heist. Hiller's contributions to the proceedings are as witty as the toys he builds for True, and the denouement of the whole tale is gratifying. But it is constant, often startling, shifts in the film's emotional tone, the economy of its writing and its lively movement through the - bleak...
...Overseers Executive Committee then made the decision to divert the divestment issue to the Standing Committee on Institutional Policy to decide how the Board should proceed. The Standing Committee recommended in March that the Board not vote on divestment, but instead form a joint committee with the Corporation to discuss the divestment issue...
...Board pushed for an up-or-down vote on the question. Bok's top advisor, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, was dispatched to lobby Overseers on why such a vote would be ill-advised. Then the University managed to find an even better plan: to divert the question to a joint committee of the Corporation and the Board. Scheduling difficulties should ensure that the committee's reccomendation on the issue will not be made until next fall...
...twilight hour is sadly indicative of his failed policy in the region. The timing of the deployment with the indictments of Lt. Col. Oliver North and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter may have succeeded in topping these criminal acts in the newspages--but it cannot be allowed to divert attention from the fact that the Administration's policies in the region have controverted public will...
...danger is that the furor will divert attention and resources from the real heterosexual epidemic -- the one raging in the inner city among IV drug abusers, their sexual partners and children. The alarmist prophecies promoted in Crisis may discredit ongoing efforts to control the disease. "This plants the seeds of distrust in a group that the public should be able to look to for answers," argues Mervyn Silverman, former San Francisco public health director. Crying wolf, as Masters and Johnson have done, is no way to fight an epidemic...