Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delfim brought in many stimulative innovations. Under a special investment tax credit, Brazilians now can divert 12% of their income tax obligations into mutual funds and watch their earnings grow. This has not only enlarged capital sources for industry but has started an epidemic of investment fever. Many workers are also buying stock with their own money, and the Sao Paulo stock exchange is one of the world's most active bourses; volume last year rose by 250%. One enterprising stock vendor even sends agents out in canoes to sell along the rivers of the interior...
Partly to divert attention from Uganda's growing financial problems, Amin has in the past threatened to invade neighboring Tanzania, which angered him by offering ex-President Obote shelter. He has also taken crowd-pleasing steps like putting economic pressure on the country's 80,000 Asians, who control most of its small businesses. If Big Daddy is unable to bolster Uganda's sagging economy, however, there is a chance that some day he might meet an unspecified "doom," which was also foretold in that long-ago vision...
...hostility doomed themselves to a life alone in the rooms of an island fortress off the coast of Sweden. They are a grim pair proceeding through their days with ritual bitterness; only the occasional Morse Code eruptions of the domestic telegraph set and the arrival of the Third Character divert the flow of venom from its daily course...
...will replace the maples with 18-foot tall sycamore trees as soon as the project is completed. The sewage pipe will intercept mixed sewage and storm water now discharged into the Charles River and divert it to the MDC's Deer Island treatment plant...
...government, Medvedev is in difficulty. While asserting that Stalin's rise to power was not inevitable and that Stalinism was a "disease," he also knows that the disease raged for more than a quarter of a century and that Soviet society is still not healthy. That Stalin could divert the inevitable progress of history for so long and so catastrophically does not fit easily into even Medvedev's very refined Marxist framework...