Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free elections and declared that Obote could come home to contest them if he wanted to; Obote wisely stayed away. A few months later, Amin won the support of the Baganda people by bringing the body of King Freddie back to Uganda for burial. But by early 1972, to divert attention from Uganda's growing economic problems, Amin was threatening to invade neighboring Tanzania...
Some people were clearly thinking bigger. House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona revived a ten-year-old proposal to divert some of Alaska's Yukon River before it spills into the Bering Sea. The waters would be channeled instead to the Lower 48. The cost of such a big ditch would be at least $200 billion, but some of that cost could perhaps be recovered by the generation of hydroelectric power as the water descended through the Canadian Rockies...
...urged that both powers cease all nuclear testing for two or more years. If the Soviet Union insists on using nu clear explosives to divert a river in northern Russia as planned, Carter asked that U.S. experts be permitted to observe the project. The U.S., in turn, would allow Russians to watch any peaceful use of nuclear power for similar projects in the U.S., although none is planned. Apart from nuclear tests, Carter suggested that each side should notify the other in advance of any experimental missile launching. This would eliminate the danger that such a launching could be mistaken...
...when I entertain political ideas (which do not entertain me). This is bad enough. But I frown when I must mingle with these unwelcome guests; words impressed into public roles are stained with brutality, lose their invisibilities, and are no longer parts of the actual brain. So I must divert attention from my innocent poem; but then I am hopelessly confused how to accomplish my other purpose...
While some members of his staff grumbled that campaign money was far too scarce to divert $150,000 into a transition that might never take place, Carter simply told Watson to keep plowing ahead. Working 18-hour days behind his glass desk in Atlanta, Watson had personally interviewed and selected a team of 18 coordinators, most of them in their 30s, to collect the best ideas and judgments they could from top persons around the country. Watson visited with hundreds of top sources: former Cabinet officers, White House staffers, heads of the country's large foundations...