Word: diverts
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...said, "The money has been given to Eliot House and even if we desired, it would not legally be possible to divert it." Bok said that no attempt would be made to divide up the alumni gift or to impound...
...threat of schism within the Missouri Synod has intensified. A large group of dissidents (Evangelical Lutherans in Mission) have now officially cast their lot with the strikers, announcing that they will divert their contributions from church headquarters to a new mission board and the seminary in exile. A conciliation board is still at work trying to mend the tattered situation, but the prospects for restoring unity are bleak...
...especially in distant suburbs; and for the merchandise sold by suburban stores that are reachable only by auto. So, they argue, the slump is taking on the characteristics of an old-fashioned recession caused mainly by inadequate buying. Heller and Okun fear that oil and gasoline price jumps will divert by $15 billion to $20 billion the amount of money that consumers have to spend for nonpetroleum products...
Throughout his tenure in the sheriffs office, Cain was collecting $1,000 a month from Giancana to divert Ogilvie's attention from mob activities and to feed inside police information to the syndicate. But he also told the police about out-of-favor mob figures whom he wanted to have arrested in order to solidify his position within the syndicate...
...same size. Plans call for the north wall to be windowless and insulated more heavily than any of the other walls; the south wall will have fins that shade in the summer and allow absorption of solar heat in winter. East and west walls are designed to divert winds, which usually come from one of those two directions. Thus a minimum of heat will be lost to the breezes...