Word: diverts
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...take out a CHINS petition meets with a probation officer, who decides if a petition is appropriate. If so, the County Bar Association appoints a lawyer for the child, and a preliminary hearing is held roughly two weeks after the petition is field. Often the judge decides to divert the case out of court into a social service agency. But status offenders have not been removed altogether from the Massachusetts court system...
...final weeks of the '82 campaign, the Reagan Administration was something like a weatherman who forecasts sunny skies while it is raining outside. It appeared temporarily oblivious to a $155 billion deficit projected for fiscal 1983 and attempted to divert public concern from a 10.1 % unemployment rate with the promise of better days ahead. But elections and optimism go hand in hand, regardless of political party. What the White House must now confront is a panoply of politically charged issues it kept under wraps during the campaign season...
...Calkins '45, said this week that Harvard has not received all of the answers it was looking for from Carnation and said he would send another letter to the company requesting further information. But he has declined to set a deadline for acting on a recommendation that the University divert itself of its $6.5 million worth of shares in the company...
Your article "The Great Vatican Bank Mystery" [Sept. 13] was a cheap shot. Banco Ambrosiano, with small I.O.R. holdings, can hardly be called a Vatican anything. Roberto Calvi was probably guilty only of greed and poor judgement. Italy's leaders, who are anticlerical, should not be allowed to divert attention from their economic bungling to the thin Vatican connection. Banco Ambrosiano is just another example of the weakness of the world banking system...
...hour Senate Banking Committee September 22, Feldstein was grilled for proposals he had made in the past to trim social security spending and divert resources away from housing programs...