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Though hospitals began their steady discharge of patients as planned, money to fund this revolution in mental care never sufficiently materialized. After ten years, only 392 community centers are in operation. Economy-minded Governors, willing to save money by closing hospitals, have been less willing to divert the money into clinics. Moreover, while small states like Hawaii can boast of success in treating seriously ill outpatients, clinics in larger states like California and New York are often faced with .more people and more problems than they can handle...
...your car. All these ways of trying to stop 200 million voters from killing old ladies are legitimate. But they take time. For most forms of political agitation, this is all right. If in ten years the government decides it prefers mass transit to highways, it will just divert its funds away from the highways. But when the United States decided early this year that it was going to stop killing Vietnamese--contenting itself with giving General Thieu enough money and weapons to go on killing them himself--that didn't bring the old ladies it had killed back...
...Although players can position their paddles so that the blip should move between them permanently on a fixed path, the pong machine automatically breaks up steady-state rallies that extend beyond a given time period. Some machines turn themselves off in such a situation, while others are programmed to divert the blip from its path. Even pong has its limits...
...opinion, it was a cheap trick used to try to divert attention from his own wrongdoing. Thank God for the independence of the press! Please do not allow yourselves to be intimidated...
...backing, at least initially; as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, it was a symptom of the times that Nixon did not. Instead, the suspicion arose that the President had overreacted to Soviet tough talk, either because his Watergate woes had impaired his judgment or because he wanted to divert public attention from them with a show of brinkmanship...