Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would put under national jurisdiction the handful of social programs, like Social Security, that it contends are best administered by the federal government, while gradually returning some 43 programs to states or localities. Undertaken in the name of federalism. These steps would deal the needy a double blow. while divert attention from the suffering and unemployment induced by last year's social cuts...
Ronald Reagan, on the verge of inciting the most severe economic crisis since the Depression--read the Wall St. tickers, watch the interest rates, check the unemployment lines--proposes old remedies. Perhaps he means to divert attention from the already obvious sourness of supply cider, yet all signs indicate he really believes in his program. After the New Federalism becomes transparent, Reagan may have to resort to a familiar economic panacea, a different type of "bold stroke...
...Khomeini regime's vulnerability. Iran's foreign reserves of $1 billion are drying up rapidly. The government needs $800 million more per month than its oil revenues provide just to supply the basic needs of its restive population. Since November the regime has had to divert $1.5 billion in development and welfare funds to help finance the prolonged war with Iraq. Oil exports have leveled off at 900,000 bbl. per day, providing $966 million a month in revenues, compared with $1.74 billion in 1978. In a nation of 39.8 million, 4 million are now jobless...
Libraries everywhere have had to divert money for maintaining and improving collections into increased security. The Chicago Public Library, where from 1979 to 1981 thieves took a $2 million bite out of a $120 million collection, is installing a $1.7 million computerized circulation-control system, which will ensure that anyone with an overdue book will not be permitted to borrow further. An electronic device at the University of Pennsylvania has reduced losses by 39% and paid for itself in 38 months. In DeKalb County, Ga., a protection system has cut losses at one high school library from 346 volumes...
Some downtown business district planners are beginning to fight back with measures designed to restrict or divert automobile traffic from shopping streets, or to ban autos altogether from certain areas, or at certain times. Pedestrian malls that are well-served by public transportation and parking often prove to be profitable delights. The best of them, such as the pedestrian shopping districts in Portland, Ore., or the old city of Munich, Germany, are continuous festivals...