Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stock prices in general, though, could falter again if final damage estimates climb higher. The demand for capital for building projects could push long-term interest rates higher, drain cash out of the stock market and divert large amounts of money from other important enterprises...
...magnitude of Kobe's damage will surely divert large amounts of money from other Japanese projects. Said Mark Brown, a construction-industry analyst for BZW Securities in Tokyo: ``Big damage doesn't necessarily mean good news for construction companies. It's certainly no cause for dancing in the streets.'' In the U.S., a letter writer to the New York Times expressed the same skepticism. Economics professor Thomas Martin wrote, ``If we accept this fallacy, we should also expect to see bombing campaigns included in the next fiscal-stimulus package.'' A rebuilding project that will not want for money is Kobe...
...flat-panel computer displays studied ways to get their goods on the road. Commented Yasuo Iwamoto, marketing chief for the Kobe Port Authority: ``The fact is that Kobe was the container center for Japan. In the long term, I doubt that other ports can take the load we divert to them...
David L. Hanselman '94-'95, President of the U.C. Divert your personal campaign war chest toward private donations to ROTC...
...just Ralph Waldo Emerson out for his evening stroll. They are the creation of a 19th century New England lady who never heard the phrase "family entertainment" but in her innocence imagined that by telling the story of one family going about the ordinary business of life, she could divert and instruct other families...