Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assets Diverted. Before the meeting, however, Ashland signed a consent decree admitting to no guilt but promising, in effect, not to make illegal political donations in the future. It also bared many secrets. In June the company submitted a 539-page report, prepared by a special committee of the board, containing exhaustive information on how Ashland executives had managed to divert corporate assets into an $800,000 U.S. political slush fund that was kept hidden in a safe. The report also indicated that from 1967 to 1972 a CIA operative was on Ashland's payroll, and that...
America's vocabularies, both public and private, are being corrupted in part by a curious style of bombast intended to invest even the most banal ideas with importance. Discussing his institution's money troubles, a university president promises: "We will divert the force of this fiscal stress into leverage energy and pry important budgetary considerations and control out of our fiscal and administrative procedures." This is a W.C. Fields newspeak, the earnestly pseudoprecise diction beloved of bureaucrats, who imagine that its blind impregnability will give their ideas some authoritative heft. In fact, it only confirms the Confucian maxim...
...selfsame uncle seizes his wife and shakes her furiously when, while promenading, she gazes about her at a glorious sunset. Clara finds this reaction extreme but correct: "Most authorities do maintain that a lady ought not to divert her gaze from the direction in which she is walking." Still, her uncle need not have raged; "a word-at most a frown -would have sufficed...
...philosopher-"whose trade it is not to do any thing, but to observe every thing." Accordingly, he discusses the intellectual underpinnings of government, education, religion, even artistic freedom (the state, he wrote, should give "entire liberty to all those who . . . would attempt, without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing"). Among his opinions...
American experts fear the safeguards are inadequate. The IAEA is understaffed and lacks experience in inspecting full cycle systems. Washington also worries that Bonn may have as little success monitoring reactors in Brazil as Ottawa did in India; the Indians were able to divert nuclear materials from a Canadian-supplied power reactor in order to explode their first atom bomb a year ago last May. Moreover, Brazil's professions that it would use its nuclear facilities only for peaceful purposes encounter some skepticism; Brasilia has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and there have been persistent reports that...