Word: diverts
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That was a mistake. We began on 35th and Madison. Twenty minutes later, we were again on 35th and Madison. We had gone in a circle. Desperation began to set in. To divert me from my worries, the cabbie decided to start a conversation...
...moved to win support for a U.N. Security Council arms embargo - having failed last week despite the direct intervention of a U.N. delegation led by Ambassador Richard Holbrooke to forestall the new outbreak. "Both countries face a famine and seemed to realize that they can't afford to divert resources into fighting a war," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And their negotiating positions were so close to resolution that there was no reason to go to war, but they're still fighting...
Solutions are out there. A large part of the Great Prison Explosion has been due to harsh drug laws, filling the prisons (especially federal prisons) with non-violent drug offenders. Arizona has responded by becoming the first state in the country to divert all of its non-violent drug offenders into probation and treatment instead of prison, saving an estimated $2.5 million in its first year of operation and with even greater predicted savings in the future. More importantly, drug treatment has been shown to cut crime, reducing the recidivism rate of substance abusers by as much as 40%. Similarly...
...response by Harvard students could not have been an attempt to divert attention from Buchanan's conservative message because his address was devoid of conservative issues. Whatever its merits, campaign finance reform, with adherents and detractors amongst both left and right, is not a conservative cause. Buchanan's new alliance with Marxist and extremist of the left, Lenora Fullani, who accompanied him to the ARCO Forum, is not a sign of moderation but rather of the completion of his metamorphism into prejudice-preaching populist. The only thing missing was his usual demagogic attachment of Jewish-sounding names to the Washington...
...sentiments of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 who stated last week that he had not yet heard that the "College has a surplus of faculty time unused by our undergraduates." There is no reason that an already under-staffed Faculty should be called upon to divert any larger portion of their energy away from the undergraduate population by loading them down with the additional responsibility of reworking their material to meet a new online format, particularly when the primary beneficiaries are those who have already graduated...