Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the Ohio May 2 primary every other serious Democratic contender. This would result in a run on the campaign chests of hard-pressed Democrats of perhaps as much as $500,000 per candidate, and a bloody splintering of the state Democratic organization into brawling fiefdoms. It would also divert some of Muskie's energies from the similarly critical primaries of Oregon and California...
Norman Gray, a spokesman for the MDC, said yesterday that the function of the relief line would be to divert storm and sewer drainage from the Charles down to a new water treatment plant in Boston...
Overkill. But many scientists argue that not enough has yet been done in basic cancer research. They fear, rightly or wrongly, that an organizational change would enmesh the cancer budget in politics and divert too much money from science efforts to clinical approaches. This fall they picked up an ally in the person of Florida Congressman Paul Rogers, chairman of the House Public Health and Welfare Subcommittee. Rogers drafted a bill to expand cancer research in the NCI within the present NIH-NCI framework. Before the House bill could be reported out, however, some proponents of the Senate bill counterattacked...
...managed to survive Othello's unsuccessful vengeance, he might in death have looked like a twisted tragic hero. As it is, even after his last speech has sealed his lips and ended any chance that he will explain his evil motives to the audience. Pachoda's Iago can divert attention from center-stage with a defiant tilt of his head...
...Lawyers also like it, and more than 70% of the superior court's cases in the past two months have been before the smaller jury. The California legislature is now considering making eight-member juries the state-wide rule in civil cases. Though Judge McCarty has had to divert some of his regular judges to criminal cases, his reforms have allowed the civil docket to move at the same pace as last year...