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...annual gross national product carved out by the military -- as much as 14%, by some estimates -- and devote more money to domestic economic growth. If he genuinely wants to modernize Soviet society and produce goods that can compete with Western products in world markets, he will have to divert more young men from military service to computer and technical training...
Poonies said USA Today was instrumental in helping them divert their "skills" from the unfunny Lampoon magazine and channel them into producing a worthwhile product...
...into August (television coverage now gives them priceless visibility back home), striking attitudes about South Africa and Supreme Court Justices and crafting the new tax bill. Over at the White House, feeding the 7 o'clock news is taken most seriously. The attitude is that if you don't divert the press with themes of your own, the press will be asking questions you don't want to talk about. So, in the weeks before Reagan began his real vacation in Santa Barbara, his press aides have been busy arranging symbolic non-news and photo opportunities to show a caring...
...peaceful nuclear facilities during military operations could lead." And Petrosyants told the press conference, "The explosion of the smallest nuclear warhead would be equal to three Chernobyls." U.S. officials quickly pointed out that Moscow's attempt to link Chernobyl to the arms race was a predictable effort to divert attention from its own failures...
...Over the long term the black states can reduce their dependence on the South African ports of Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin to divert freight from South Africa to Mozambique over roads and rail lines that are frequently sabotaged by Mozambican rebels supported from inside South Africa. But for the moment Pretoria's black neighbors are exceedingly vulnerable...