Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Garcia's response to such dissatisfaction was to direct criticism against the U.S. in stead. Says Garcia's Vice President (and bitter foe) Diosdado Macapagal: "The new line of nationalism is nothing more than an attempt to cover up corruption and divert the voters' attention." So far Garcia's assaults on the U.S. have had no substantial visible effect on the affection in which the mass of Filipinos hold the U.S. -an affection so strong that Ramon Magsaysay used to proclaim: "Let who ever wants run as an anti-American...
...nests (TIME, March 10). Under the pressure of the budget ceiling, Air Force brains are asking: Why sink most of our development and procurement funds over the next few years into B-58s and liquid-fuel ICBMs that will become obsolete as the Minuteman system builds up? Why not divert some of that money into speeding up Minuteman? With that idea in mind, the Air Force wants to spend more than ten times as much on Minuteman in 1960 as it is spending this year-$250 million v. $22 million. B58 procurement will probably slow down; the Titan program...
...form of government peculiar to underdeveloped countries. Rather, it is in an oversimplification to think of the political situation in a country receiving aid in the terms which he has in mind. It is not difficult to see that a country which receives only economic aid is free to divert a large part of its own resources towards increasing the size and effectiveness of its military establishment than would otherwise be possible for it to maintain. The specific nature and purpose of military aid makes it more honest although perhaps less self-righteous and should be an appreciable advantage from...
Burke said that bookstores in the Square were overwhelmingly opposed to the idea of such an agency. However, he conceded that undergraduates would like a student textbook agency "because it would divert business from local stores, and force them to raise their prices for used books...
...water pipes, filling in potholed roads. Old residents were amazed that suddenly the streets were no longer filled with prowling packs of wild dogs and the usual flocks of scavenger birds. To help bring down the soaring cost of living, General Ne Win ordered Burma's navy to divert its patrol boats from their coastal duties and send them out as a fishing fleet...