Word: diverts
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...that are used to bring in prospects to the campuses must come from the alumni," Executive Director of the Ivy Group Jeff Orleans says. "That's designed to say to the alumni community, 'if you are sufficiently interested in this, then you support the program rather than having us divert university funds that could be used instead for regular financial aid programs and the like...
Until then, there is plenty else to divert mind and, with the Currier House Dance Marathon, body. Last year's hugely successful Cultural Rhythms celebration returns to Sanders Theatre on Valentine's Day. The American Repertory Theatre has four productions, including works director by the Soviet director Yuri Lyubimov and by the Italian satirist Dario...
...executive director of the Russian Immigrant Adjustment and Service Center. "They have happy families here and jobs," added Wolf, whose center is in a Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood that is home to more than 12,000 Soviet families. She feared that the current focus on the trickle of returnees will divert attention from the "thousands who want to come here and to Israel." The Soviets last week imposed a new set of regulations on emigration that U.S. officials say could result in the tightest clampdown on emigration in nearly two decades...
Back at the stove, Fussell provides wise and workable recipes for items as various as cornfield peas and coconut rice, Owendaw hominy bread, chocolate crunch cookies and sweet and sour Christmas fish. And she provides enough lore to divert the amateur; if history is your dish, this is your book...
...Dimitri Simes, a Sovietologist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Both sides were upping the ante beyond what was realistic for the two delegations. Gorbachev intended to trap the President, but then he became involved himself in the dialogue and allowed the attraction of the grand compromise to divert him from his main ambitions . . . My impression is that Gorbachev is a gambler...