Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are answers. Price is not the only problem; the huge flow of money from industrialized countries to the oil exporters is another. Ford's program, if it really does hold down imports, would at least divert to the U.S. Government, and back into the pockets of taxpayers, some money that Americans otherwise would pour into the treasuries of Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Canada and the Arab nations. Moreover, the U.S. must hold down imports to free itself of the threat of political blackmail from foreign suppliers who could shut off the tap at any time...
...shrieked one man. "To get those niggers!" When Boston police, bolstered by 125 state troopers, charged the mob, the crowd retaliated by hurling bricks and bottles. They slashed the tires on police cruisers and even tipped one over. While four school buses roared up to the front door to divert the attention of the crowd, the school's black students were herded onto buses at the back door and driven home to Roxbury without incident...
...three rounds. In order to participate in the second round, a party must obtain 17 per cent of the popular support, a coalition of three parties (for which only the extreme left qualifies) must obtain 30 per cent of the electoral balloting. These provisions purge the communist left and divert its votes at an early stage of the parcelling to the rightist majority...
Boston has run an extremely segregated school system for years and the busing issue is "a ploy to cover up the really disgusting state of schools in Boston and divert the people's attention from its," a teacher in the Boston school system said last night...
Safran said that American policy in the Middle East has focused on side issues to divert attention from its inability to achieve a permanent settlement...