Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspection provisions cannot prevent anyone from trying to divert nuclear materials. At best, they provide an alarm system if misbehavior is possible or has already occurred. The system's most important function is that it demonstrates good faith on the part of countries that have agreed to participate. Says a former I.A.E.A. official: "Safeguards are in a way similar to detente. They can only survive if there is mutual trust...
...ADVISORY Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), established in 1972 as an advisory body to Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, essentially helps to divert the ever-present and ever-increasing criticism of the Corporation's investment policy. It was not formed, as is believed, to represent the concerns of the Harvard community. That fact became painfully obvious at the end of last week, when the ACSR abandoned any pretense of democratic practice...
...will provide assistance to the democratic resistance only for food, medicine, clothing, and other assistance for their surival and well-being -- and not for arms, ammunition and weapons of war." Previously, Reagan had wanted to be able to divert the money for arms if there was no progress in Sandinista-contra talks after 60 days...
...Britain, and NATO diplomats that he is a good listener and that he can discuss issues briskly and without putting them into an ideological context. In talks with British officials in London last year, for example, he argued against the development of Star Wars weaponry, saying that it would divert funds badly needed to modernize the Soviet economy. Also in Britain he told a group of business executives, "If we can get the economics right, I believe politics and peace will look after themselves." Whether new ways of speaking necessarily mean new ways of thinking is, of course, another matter...
...whatever her husband is feeling; the house salesman who comes close to true rapture in envisioning domestic bliss for all his customers. When Kitty, the best-sketched figure, loses her second husband to another man, the reader can guess the precise tone in which she describes her rival to divert sympathy: "Don't be silly. He's a nice man. If he had asked me, I would have moved in with him myself...