Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eaton Corp.'s AIL Division frankly admit that their company will have to raid other electronics firms to find the engineers and computer experts needed to make controls for B-1 bombers. Asserts Economics Professor P.M. Scherer of Northwestern University: "This means either a bloody battle to divert engineers from other businesses into defense, or a very slow process of adjustment...
...vacuous inertia, a canned wisdom of the East persuading them - destructively - that mere being would suffice, was even superior to action. "Let It Be," crooned Paul McCartney. Scientific excellence seemed apocalyptically suspect - the route to pollution and nuclear destruction. Striving became suspect. A leveling contempt for "elitism" helped to divert much of a generation from the ambition to be excellent...
What the University would probably like to do most of all, in fact, is divert HTU members from their organizing efforts with a proliferation of unwinnable legal distractions. It seems likely, however, that HTU members will continue their own strategy of making new allies by providing assistance to residents of buildings involved in disputes with Harvard. If the University refuses to deviate from its obstinate failure to address legitimate resident concerns, HTU can only benefit from the resulting dissatisfaction among tenants. A tenants' revolution may be a long way off for HRE, but then again, Marie Antoinette got plenty...
...Best to divert them with tales of double-800s who are happily attending state schools and absurd geographical diversity cases that make it into Harvard. They don't believe you, but it seems to make them feel better until the topic changes to sex, by which time only the special-interest partisans are left, and you lead them out into the humidity beyond the Yard for bitter-sweet chocolate ice cream
...resurrect nuclear power's image as the "wave of the future." The Reagan administration has taken the lead in this effort; indeed, energy secretary James B. Edwards once called opponents of nuclear power "subversive elements." And the Congress has so far seemed willing to go along as economic issues divert public attention from nuclear power...