Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke there, dude. But seriously, why bother with the whole artificial death scene, man, I mean in the end it's all the same, right? I'm for just hanging loose, dude, like playing it fully casual--I say let's place a moratorium on doomsday machines, and then divert funds meant for the Defense Department to the Grateful Dead. You in, dude...
...second flaw in the argument is that all convictions require two basic criteria to be satisfied--criminal action and criminal intent. Even if it is proven that the Administration did divert the funds, it appears that President Reagan had no intent to do so. Now this, admitedly, is a problem in itself. The failure of North and Poindexter to consult the President on a decision of this magnitude is inexcusable. However, this does not mean that the President's management style of letting subordinates pursue policy objective without requireing White House approval of every detail should be completely discarded. This...
Parliament speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani declared in his weekly prayer sermon at Tehran University that the purpose of the statements by the U.S. envoys was to get Iran into a war with the Soviet Union and divert its forces from the war with Iraq...
...said the warning was intended to undermine Soviet-Iranian relations, "involve us in a war with our northern neighbor" and divert Iranian troops from the battlefront with Iraq. Iran has been at war with Iraq since...
...anybody gets bored, "work" is always there to divert our attention. There's no purposeful social setting, or hidden "friendly" agenda, and so there's no pressure to build conversations. We free associate through the shift with random spurts of silliness and sarcasm--a relaxed series of laughs and banter whose only structure is our scooping dance between customers...