Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decades doctors had tried to divert air from the windpipe back up into the blocked-off pharynx. But such efforts inevitably failed; food and water would get into the windpipe, causing choking. In 1969 Dr. Mario Staffieri of Piacenza, near Milan, Italy, tried a new approach, inspired by a famous case in medical annals. Forty years earlier, a Chicago iceman, suicidally depressed by the loss of his voice after a laryngectomy, had plunged an ice pick into his throat. Instead of dying, he regained the ability to speak; he had accidentally pierced the esophagus wall in a way that gave...
...movie-goers. Contrary to all expectations, current reports confirm that Manhattan is booming at the box-office throughout the country, testifying that Allen has resolved what had been considered impossible-a reconcilement between art and entertainment; to put it bluntly, without compromising his aesthetic standards, Allen continues to divert the average...
...many noninflationary years, the U.S. produced more goods and services more cheaply by building new plants and lavishing billions on research and development. But those glory decades have ended, at least temporarily. Government policies now work to discourage saving, retard investment and divert into immediate consumption the money that industry needs to spend on new factories, new equipment and new skills. Partly because of this, over the past ten years, annual productivity growth has slowed to about half the average 3% increase of the 1960s. This has been a major cause of slow economic expansion, the debilitated dollar and double...
...remarkable efforts of Curtis Sliwa and "the Magnificent 13" [May 7] who volunteer their time and energy to divert subway crime should be commended. I hope I never need them, but I would really like to meet them next time I ride the subways...
...vote on shareholder resolutions in the manner best calculated to overcome apartheid." Calling this course "the most ethically responsible," Bok referred to legal problems facing portfolio managers who buy and sell on political rather than financial grounds. Said he: "Total divestment would almost certainly cause the university to divert millions of dollars in pursuit of a strategy that is legally questionable, widely disputed on its merits, and very likely to prove ineffective in achieving its objectives...