Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tension mounted, the Americans tried to divert themselves with crossword puzzles and, in spite of their lack of sleep, tennis on the embassy courts. Once, while waiting for a particularly critical Iranian reply, the Americans joshingly cast an imaginary movie of the negotiating drama. They agreed that Henry Fonda or Jason Robards should play the lead, poker-faced Christopher. Karl Maiden was their choice as soft-spoken Harold Saunders, the State Department's Near Eastern specialist. Peter Ustinov was assigned the role of Alec Toumayan, the team's balding, urbane interpreter...
More than likely, the cuts in Sunday service will be restored; indeed, some politicians contend that the whole plan is merely a show to divert attention from other painful cutbacks in service. Some, already announced but largely ignored in the furor over Sunday service, include station closings, reduced bus service, and commuter rail cutbacks. While these cuts are not as drastic as the Sunday stoppage, they must not be allowed either. In a country as starved for energy as the United States, mass transit represents the best chance of cutting automobile...
...fled in 1978, he is eager to resume his career as a globe-trotting financier. U.S. investigators have already tried to collar him: last winter in an operation of questionable legality, the FBI made plans to seize Vesco on a commercial flight between Costa Rica and the Bahamas and divert the plane to Florida. Vesco was tipped off and avoided the trap...
...closing session, Thatcher was defiant: "We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting for a U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want to-the lady's not for turning!" Despite the cheers on both sides of the party, there is anxiety that Thatcher may not be able to turn around the economic woes by election time. Ahead this winter is an unavoidable showdown between the government and public service workers over pay increases that will severely test her policies. If that confrontation goes badly-and some militant union leaders have...
...mismanagement, and foreign markets were reduced by the Western recession of the mid-1970s. Spiraling bills for imported oil, 80% of which comes from the Soviet Union, presented yet another problem. Moscow's preferential price, though well below OPEC rates, has risen sharply since 1974. Poland must therefore divert more exports to the Soviet Union instead of selling them for hard Western currency. The result: a staggering foreign debt of more than $19 billion...