Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason minority youths cannot find jobs or read and write is because too little money is spent to teach them how. A draft won't solve this problem in our society, and it will divert our attention from the root of the problem...
...precisely nullifies terrestrial gravity) 930,000 miles from the earth. Its mission: to study the effect of the solar wind on the earth's magnetic field. Yet even as ISEE-3 sniffed at solar breezes, its flight director, NASA Aerospace Engineer Robert Farquhar, was plotting to divert it somehow toward a comet. "The craft was custom-made to measure plasma waves," he explains, "and that's exactly what you find at the back of a comet...
...with G-Z, as NASA scientists call it, could occur six months ahead of the Halley encounter. Farquhar began petitioning NASA officials to spend the meager $3 million it would take to commandeer ISEE-3. To his surprise, the allocation was approved before he had figured out how to divert the craft. "It may have turned out not to be possible," he says, "but at that point there was no backing...
...limited to humanitarian supplies, such as food and medicine. Even defensive military equipment like radar is precluded in the House plan, though such items may be permitted in the Senate version. Restrictions on how U.S. aid can be used are largely technicalities, however, since the contras can now divert funds from nonlethal supplies to the purchase of more military goods...
...launching a high-visibility crusade for tax reform, Reagan hopes to regain his political momentum and divert attention from a series of setbacks that began with his trip to the grave sites of Nazi soldiers at Bitburg. Congress is proving increasingly contrary: the House last week roundly rejected his compromise budget plan, restoring Social Security increases and cutting defense. Says one top aide: "If we didn't have a tax-reform project, we'd need to create one, just to get the President out on the offensive...