Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goods and services that the individuals buy," he writes, "control their needs and petrify their faculties. They have dozens of newspapers and magazines that espouse the same ideals. They have innumerable gadgets that keep them occupied and divert their attention from the real issue-which is the awareness that they could both work less and determine their own needs and satisfactions...
There will be pressures, as Eckstein points out, to divert money back into the defense establishment. The cities have to respond by mobilizing counterpressure...
...carefully measured response was also determined by the war in Viet Nam. What may become the biggest engagement of that conflict to date is shaping up in the hill country of the DMZ around Khe Sanh, and Johnson is reluctant to take any new military initiative that might divert men and materiel from that looming battle...
Despite North Korea's obvious attempt to win prestige through belligerence, many in the top echelons of U.S. government felt that the hijacking of the Pueblo had an ominous connection with the war in Viet Nam. As the London Economist observed: "The North Koreans are trying to divert American attention from what could be a decisive battle in Viet Nam." That battle, shaping up around the U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh in South Viet Nam's northwest corner, could be the biggest of the war. The Communists would not only like to distract U.S. attention and resources...
Scratching the Heart. What the surgical spectaculars have done, though nobody planned it that way, is to divert attention-and possibly research money-from corrective measures for heart disease in its earlier stages, and ultimately, of course, from prevention. There are already several surgical approaches designed to repair hearts after coronary occlusion but before the damage becomes near-total and irreversible, as it had in the transplant patients...