Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Administrators are anxious to divert student traffic away from the busy intersections where Quincy meets Cambridge Street and Broadway to the new gate between the Yard and Memorial Hall...
...about Cambodia and Watergate--and for good reason. But he is right that the effort to be tough often degenerates into being merely snarling and snide, with an elitist irony substituting for honest skepticism. Reporters earn their investigative stripes by chasing scandals and catching politicians in flip-flops, which divert attention from truly important policy issues that must be resolved. "The result is an arms race of 'attitude,' in which reporters don't explicitly argue or analyze what they dislike in a political program but instead sound sneering and supercilious about the whole idea of politics...
...handed ruling authority over the world's biggest oil-producing state to his half brother Crown Prince Abdullah. Fahd, in his 70s, overweight and diabetic, suffered a stroke in November. The Crown Prince, while more of a traditionalist and an Arab nationalist than the King, is not likely to divert Saudi Arabia from its pro-American course. Meanwhile, Britain ordered the deportation to Dominica in the Caribbean of Mohammed al Mass'ari, a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia's royal family. Saudi Arabia had threatened to curtail trade, including military purchases, unless London silenced al Mass...
...beaten in Kennedy Park--100 yards from my home--by a gang of six young black males. They hid in the bushes behind the Kennedy School and ran after us in a V-formation, all very professional. I was with a friend from out of town who managed to divert them for a second, and we ran. They did not say they wanted money. They said they wanted to kill us and, had our stratagem failed, they would have done so. I reported the assault to the Cambridge, Harvard and State Police and to the Dean of the Faculty...
...that Farrakhan and his followers pose any serious threat to Jewish lives or influence. The real danger of Farrakhan's anti-Semitic fulminations is that they divert blacks from their real enemies--in much the same way that right-wing Republicans like Pat Buchanan blame immigrants and liberals for the declining living standards of average workers--and keep them from taking a clear-eyed look at what the Nation of Islam has done, or not done, to advance racial justice. The simple truth is that the Jews Farrakhan so often reviles contributed more in lives, money and effort...