Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after day, to fan the idea that radical and even liberal college students are involved in terrorism, the press and the police are acting to generate a climate of fear to try to discredit the student movement in the eyes of the rest of the American people and to divert attention from growing problems at home...
Democratic leaders in the Congress tried to dismiss the Nixon message as a routine post-Labor Day political attack. House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs said that Nixon was only trying to "divert public attention from the failures of his own Administration...
...songs as a safety valve for the rebellious. Besides, many are patriotic." Still, as Allen points out, the Soviet authorities are not exactly delighted about the trend. Recently, tapes acquired in Russia by a few Western tourists have been seized by Soviet customs. The government has also tried to divert the public's attention from the biting new ballads by reissuing old favorites on records, like pre-revolutionary gypsy tunes, that were officially denounced as decadent until recently...
Unhappy Clients. Some advertisers disapprove of agencies' diversification moves, fearing that they will divert management attention from client services. Last year Procter & Gamble and Warner-Lambert pulled out of P.K.L. Companies Inc. (formerly Papert, Koenig, Lois) partly because they were unhappy with the agency's acquisition of a motorbike company. Century Cycles. .Critics who foresaw disaster when agencies began going public now argue that admen venturing into new fields will fail because they lack experience in production, distribution or retailing...
...Louise Day Hicks, 47, a nearly successful candidate for mayor of Boston, is now running as a Democrat for the House. She wants to end the war and divert that money and funds from the space program to cities. She has been endorsed by the Boston locals of the International Longshoremen's Association as "man enough for us," a phrase that would anger many a Women's Lib militant, but pleases the hard-nosed Mrs. Hicks...