Word: diverting
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...governments of many sub-Saharan African countries receive aid from other countries and international organizations to supplement their domestic health spending. But according to the study, published in The Lancet earlier this month, the addition of these funds often leads governments to divert the money they planned to dedicate to health to other areas...
...researchers found that for every dollar governments are given, they divert between $0.43 and $1.14 away from their original domestic health budgets...
...Poland has announced it will carry out its own investigation into the causes of the crash. So far the most probable cause is the error of judgment on the part of the pilot, who attempted a second landing at the Smolensk airport despite being warned by traffic controllers to divert to Moscow or Minsk because of thick fog. When descending, the plane clipped the tree line and broke in two, resulting in the deadly crash that has sent Poland into mourning...
...camouflage, shooting at imagined enemies. Nor does she buy into every conspiracy theory that crackles along the patriot grapevine, like last week's alert that the Oklahoma catastrophe-which "patriots" suspect involved three bombs, not one-was a government plot to enable President Clinton to proclaim martial law and divert attention from forthcoming hearings on the Whitewater financial scandal. Indeed, Miller's attitude toward the Oklahoma City culprits -- "I say hang 'em" -- sounded much like the President...
...English - a first for a Kremlin leader before a Western audience - and promised members that the Sochi Games would be "safe, enjoyable and memorable." He even guaranteed that there would be snow. With the Olympics now seen as Putin's pet project, it may be harder for him to divert the blame if things don't go as planned...