Word: diverts
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GALBRAITH OFFERS a similarly simple observation and bankrupt solution to the problem of weapons proliferation. No one could deny his assertion that arms sales divert from much-needed expenditures on food and medicine. But his belief that such arms sales are the cause, and not the result of international rivalries, and that consequently Third World enemies can easily unite against the superpowers and boycott weapons, is deluded. He boldly asserts that "from the weapons flow come the resulting tensions and conflict between the recipients-between India and Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, Israel and the Arab lands, between different factions within...
Industry wields its financial might on political and scientific levels to divert attention from possible environmental causes of cancer--through overt lobby groups, which battle environmental regulation, and through the less apparent but more insidious basic research by the industrial councils. But no spokesman defends public health as vociferously as industry protects its products. This one-sided debate has led to an increasingly polluted environment which harbors an ever-increasing number of probable carcinogens. The national death rate due to cancer has risen steadily since 1930, according to a 1982 American Cancer Society report. Although this rise in the incidence...
...services side, the Senator wants to specialize in elderly affairs, hoping to divert a showdown between the elderly and the other residents of the state. Kraus has also begun a fight for a commission to study ways to reduce Massachusetts over reliance on the property tax, a tax that hits the poor and the elderly out of proportion to their income. Despite Proposition 21/2--a sweeping tax cut passed in 1980. Kraus guesses that property revaluation which often shifted the tax burden from businesses to homes means that 85 percent of Massachusetts homes will pay more property tax than before...
...Nigerian leader has tried to use the two million Ghanaians as scapegoats to divert attention from the economic crises and the corruption charges that could hurt him in the balloting. Indications are that the expulsion has made him popular with almost every sector of his country...
...disappointment stems from the regrettable irresponsibility demonstrated by those Council members who kicked up a fuss before the referendum even began, and, albeit to a lesser extent, from the naivete by The Crimson in failing to expose this as a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the real issue at hand--the need to halt the arms race and interventionism. Jeff Knopf '83, for Radcliffe-Harvard Peace Alliance