Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommendations that fall far short of any reasonable, justifiable stand against companies supporting apartheid, focussing on the support U.S. firms give the apartheid system through the labor practices they employ in South Africa. While racist labor policies certainly constitute a significant aspect of American corporate complicity in apartheid, they divert attention from the larger issues of U.S. corporate involvement...
...remains convinced that American policy is fundamentally hostile toward his government. In response, he seems to feel that stirring up trouble elsewhere will divert American attention and at the same time gain him political allies wherever Cuban troops achieve military success...
...hold an estimated $7.6 billion in U.S. Treasury bills and notes, more than four times as much as in 1974. By making the investments, foreigners are helping to finance the nation's excessive deficit spending, thereby eliminating the need for the Government to borrow the money domestically and divert it from productive investment at home...
...short of any reasonable, justifiable stand against companies supporting apartheid. First, the report focuses on the support U.S. firms give the apartheid system through the labor practices they employ in South Africa. While racist labor policies certainly constitute a significant aspect of American corporate complicity in apartheid, they divert attention from the bigger issues of U.S. corporate involvement. U.S. corporations employ a total of less than 1 per cent of the South African black labor force, so any improvement in American labor practices will have virtually no effect on the great mass of South African blacks. The ACSR almost completely...
...prospect for an overall settlement. If Prime Minister Begin believes withdrawal from Lebanon can be used as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from Washington and Cairo, he could well be in for a surprise. The invasion is likely to do nothing except severely set back negotiations and divert attention from the main issues of a Palestinian homeland and the occupied territories...