Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heterosexuality (among gays). This sort of reverse discrimination is very different from that which Allan Bakke had in mind, and is potentially even more destructive. It also lurks menacingly beneath the surface of much otherwise legitimate protest against oppression of all kinds; when observers recognize it, it can divert their attention from the common goals of equality and understanding which both oppressed and sympathizers desire...
...team of graduate students and professors." Although Marglin was always somewhat to the left politically, his approach to economics was strictly neoclassical. "I thought," he says, "that what I was learning was a value-free set of tools." Maass agrees, remembering, "Marglin did not let his interest in politics divert him from a sincere concern about economic theory...
...other canyon residents worked desperately to save their property. In Mandeville Canyon, Beverly Hills Psychologist Philip Flexo and his wife Pat shoveled day and night to divert a stream of mud and water from their $250,000 home. No matter what happened to the house, Flexo vowed not to leave the canyon permanently. Said he: "We moved here to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Despite the fires, rains, flood and muds, I won't move...
...University of Arizona started performing heart transplants ten months ago with a minimal capital investment and has not had to divert its resources to the operation, Dr. Jack G. Copland, associate professor of surgery at U. of Arizona, said...
...Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Board of Trustees decided last week that the institutions will not perform heart transplants because the operations would divert too large a proportion of resources to a limited number of patients...