Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Answer: The China trip is almost exclusively for home consumption, and the Administration is hoping Reagan can use the publicity to divert attention from his latest foreign policy disasters in Lebanon and Central America, Congress complete repudiation of the Reagan FY85 budget, and growing public awareness of Administration sleaziness...
...infected with Nicaraguan-style revolution. If Mexico actually did lurch left, coming under a Communist regime or, more likely, splitting apart into warring fiefs, the U.S. would be confronted by a teeming enemy (pop. 75 million) along its 2,000-mile, currently undefended border. The U.S. would have to divert troops now faced off against the Soviets from Berlin to the Persian Gulf to the western Pacific. The Soviets, of course, would like nothing better than to have the U.S. saddled with the Western Hemisphere equivalent of the U.S.S.R.'s own hostile neighbor, China. Refugees by the hundreds...
...problem here is that much of Harvard's money is tied together--at least within the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which helps finance financial aid. The more that students give to the scholarship funds, the less of the "general fund" Harvard has to divert there to meet that year's need. Practically, offering the "scholarship fund" is a meaningless ploy...
...broader level, the council must not let peripheral isues or a simple weariness with debate--which has continued, intermittently for more than two years--divert if from the very real and very immediate concern of harassment...
...Prominent among these may be the so-called mammalian dive reflex, which allows whales and seals to remain submerged in cold water. It is theorized that humans also have this protection. The reflex is triggered when frigid water splashes over the forehead and nose; nerves signal the brain to divert oxygen-rich blood from the limbs to the heart and brain. An even more important defense against brain damage is a phenomenon known as sub mersion hypothermia: the extreme cold of the surrounding water, and of water breathed into the lungs, cools the body (to about...