Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FORTUNE magazine, which is devoted to environment. Roosevelt, writes Nixon, "described the conservation and proper use of natural resources as 'the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.' " Today, that may be true in a general sense. But it should not divert the nation's attention from the very specific and urgent problems of social justice and racial equality...
Consider the headaches a sports stadium causes: Local governments-always hard pressed for funds-must often divert money from other urgent needs to build a stadium for their professional football team. Many long-time residents of a city are uprooted from their homes to clear the site of the stadium; those who remain nearby are subjected to endless Sundays when cars line their streets bumper to bumper, and crowds of football fans heartlessly trample their carefully-tended lawns...
...unlikelihood of the state's actually taking over the Stadium does not make the bill pointless. At the least, it helps to divert Patriot fans' attention from the legislature's own record on the stadium issue. For years, bills to construct a new stadium for the team have come up in the legislature and for years, they have died there. Building a new stadium is an expensive proposition-from 830 to 850 million by various estimates-and virtually all of the proposals for a stadium admit that it cannot pay its own way. A deficit would have to be financed...
...University to resolve these issues, such resolutions can be accomplished only through a mutual cooperation and discussion. Issues and problems are not discoverable, in an atmosphere of turmoil. Quite apart from the difficulty of exploring questions under such circumstances, the inevitable effect of an overtly obstructive demonstration is to divert the attention and concern of all members of the University from the substantive problems to the fact of the obstruction itself...
Police said the group, led by a stunning 22-year-old girl who used to teach school in Lebanon, had apparently intended to divert the Tel Aviv-to-New York flight to Tunisia. There the Boeing 707 was to have been evacuated and blown up in an attempt to persuade TWA to stop flying to Israel. Though the plot failed and the three now face possible life imprisonment under Greece's tough new anti-explosives law, it was one more example of how Arab terrorists are increasingly exporting violence to the airports and office buildings of Europe...