Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military expenditures were over 13 percent in 1973. Deng has managed to reduce them so that today they stand at about 6 to 8 percent of the GNP. He just demobilized one million troops, 20 percent of the Chinese army. Such actions have made it possible for him to divert resources that used to go to military expenditures and heavy industry and send them instead to light industry and consumer goods. In appreciation, the workers and peasants are now working harder and more productively, and innovation in China has radically improved...
...annual gross national product carved out by the military -- as much as 14%, by some estimates -- and devote more money to domestic economic growth. If he genuinely wants to modernize Soviet society and produce goods that can compete with Western products in world markets, he will have to divert more young men from military service to computer and technical training...
...planned return visit to America, his campaign to bring the nation's bishops, priests and sisters into line has provoked a rising tide of dissent. Bishops are privately vexed, and priests are salting sermons with barbs directed at Rome; the board of one Milwaukee parish even recommended that members divert gifts from the annual collection for the Vatican...
Poonies said USA Today was instrumental in helping them divert their "skills" from the unfunny Lampoon magazine and channel them into producing a worthwhile product...
...peaceful nuclear facilities during military operations could lead." And Petrosyants told the press conference, "The explosion of the smallest nuclear warhead would be equal to three Chernobyls." U.S. officials quickly pointed out that Moscow's attempt to link Chernobyl to the arms race was a predictable effort to divert attention from its own failures...