Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms race pervades our lives--we pay for it in our taxes, we hear it behind the political rattling of sabers; the problems it presents us divert us from the task of feeding and educating our populations. We must no longer allow the arms race to determine our lives; our choices must determine...
...heart of downtown Oslo. The musicians start to work as soon as they shake off the jet lag. An album usually takes two days to record-a day for each side-with a third day reserved for mixing. Very businesslike, minimal distractions. Oslo is short on hotspots likely to divert attention from the matter at hand. For fun, the musicians trundle off to the Edvard Munch Museum...
...Secretary of State-indeed, the Reagan Administration itself-might be engaging in verbal overkill in warning about the dangers of Soviet expansionism. In his meeting with Israeli officials in Jerusalem, for example, Haig speculated that the Soviet Union might have inspired the Syrian assault in Lebanon possibly to divert attention from the Polish crisis. The consensus of Western diplomats in the Middle East is that the Syrians acted on their...
...times, Song of Solomon reads like a song, but at other times, the musical myth diffuses not only the present world of the characters but the plot of the novel as well. The Biblical allegories and the legendsare themselves so radiant that they divert the reader from the much flatter characters who sift through this mystic past. Time becomes a very confusing element with dead characters too closely blended to living ones, adding incoherence to the work...
...than employees in many Western countries. New machinery is not a threat to a worker's job but a useful tool that may help improve company profits. As Fujio Mitarai, head of Canon U.S.A., told TIME'S Robert Grieves: "In order to automate production, we had to divert workers into altogether new fields. We moved them from cameras to copiers to calculators, but we kept everyone employed in the process...