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...challenging COLA payments. Steel companies last spring got the United Steelworkers to forgo a 320-an-hour COLA increase in order to pay for higher pensions for retired union members. The copper industry was willing to accept a strike this month when the union would not agree to divert a 29?-an-hour COLA increase to help pay for its benefit funds...
...they ignored a market niche that was first taken advantage of by tiny American Motors Corp. (which commands only 1.5% of the auto market vs. GM's 48%) and increasingly exploited by aggressive foreign manufacturers. First the Germans and then the Japanese found it relatively easy to divert to the U.S. autos built for smaller roads and with more expensive energy markets in mind...
There was an even broader irony in the London embassy takeover. It dramatized the domestic unrest from which the Banisadr government has been trying to divert attention. For six months the authorities in Tehran have concentrated on the international crisis surrounding the American hostages. But that preoccupation has not succeeded in covering up all the serious threats facing the regime, from both the large and rebellious ethnic minorities and Iran's giant neighbor to the north, the Soviet Union...
...heterosexuality (among gays). This sort of reverse discrimination is very different from that which Allan Bakke had in mind, and is potentially even more destructive. It also lurks menacingly beneath the surface of much otherwise legitimate protest against oppression of all kinds; when observers recognize it, it can divert their attention from the common goals of equality and understanding which both oppressed and sympathizers desire...
...team of graduate students and professors." Although Marglin was always somewhat to the left politically, his approach to economics was strictly neoclassical. "I thought," he says, "that what I was learning was a value-free set of tools." Maass agrees, remembering, "Marglin did not let his interest in politics divert him from a sincere concern about economic theory...