Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into August (television coverage now gives them priceless visibility back home), striking attitudes about South Africa and Supreme Court Justices and crafting the new tax bill. Over at the White House, feeding the 7 o'clock news is taken most seriously. The attitude is that if you don't divert the press with themes of your own, the press will be asking questions you don't want to talk about. So, in the weeks before Reagan began his real vacation in Santa Barbara, his press aides have been busy arranging symbolic non-news and photo opportunities to show a caring...
...rather than wait into the 1990s for the full system to be operational. In his later talk, the President in effect said no to that demand also: "I know there are those who are getting a bit antsy, but to deploy systems of limited effectiveness now would deter or divert limited funds and delay our main research." Critics on the opposite side are meanwhile seeking to do that by chopping at the 1986 SDI budget...
...Over the long term the black states can reduce their dependence on the South African ports of Durban and Port Elizabeth by developing alternative trade routes, like the existing but inadequate highway and rail line between Zambia and the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam. Zimbabwe will begin to divert freight from South Africa to Mozambique over roads and rail lines that are frequently sabotaged by Mozambican rebels supported from inside South Africa. But for the moment Pretoria's black neighbors are exceedingly vulnerable...
...main attraction is a summer outdoor repertory of three Shakespeare plays, usually unburdened by arty directorial concepts. The costumes are velvety, embroidered and heraldic. The lighting is simple. The three-story stage, with its doors and windows and stairs and balcony, serves as the set. The actors do not divert the apparent meaning of the text. This season's As You Like It does not put its actors in clown face or rely on a piece of white cloth to stand for everything from snowflakes to a marriage tent, as the Royal Shakespeare Company has done. Nor does Ashland...
...emphasize the ongoing tensions, Peking and Taipei differed sharply over what motivated the pilot, Wang Hsi-chueh, 57, to divert the plane to Canton. Wang told a press conference in Peking that he had been homesick and wanted to see his father and brothers. Officials in Taiwan, however, claimed that the defection of the $48,000-a-year pilot was the result of coercion and had been carefully planned. They pointed to the well-drilled precision with which Chinese army troops surrounded the jet when it landed at Canton and the presence of television cameras as evidence that Wang...