Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are still fine trains departing every day for Chicago, service to Washington is excellent, ditto for New England. And if the Government would divert to railroads some of the money it pours into airline and highway subsidy, we might even approximate the excellent train service one enjoys in Europe...
...REVENUE SHARING. A proposal to divert part of the money collected by the Federal Government to local governments. Cities and states have long complained that the Federal Government takes so much of the total tax dollar (about two-thirds) that not enough is left for local needs...
...geologists promising an unfrozen future-as this or any week's news suggests. The Administration claims that Moscow may soon have the capability to devastate the U.S. with a formidable new battery of nuclear missiles. Yet any attempt to counter the Soviet threat (if it is real) would divert scarce funds from urgently needed domestic programs. Of course, the argument goes, social ills may speedily be cured as soon as the Viet Nam war is ended. But when will that...
...this will take time-and something must be done to avoid another great stack-up this summer. In reluctant response, the Federal Government, starting June 1, will assign hourly quotas for arriving and departing flights at the Golden Triangle airports. This should help divert more private aircraft to small airports, and perhaps persuade airlines to start cutting their peak-hour flights-a decision they should make voluntarily...
...faced with the predictable next chapters of what has become the state script for "radicalization" of a university. Every effort is being made to focus attention on the appearance of police and to divert attention from the short-term and long-term implications of the building seizure itself. The usual vilification of individuals is well under way. Where real villians cannot be found, we may be sure that they will be invented...