Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MacDonald denies the litany of charges lodged at his mahogany door. He claims that the testimony in Washington is unsubstantiated and unfair and that he is the victim of an attempt to divert attention from mismanagement...
North also accepted installation of a security fence around his Great Falls, Va., house from arms dealer Richard V. Secord, who had helped sell U.S. arms to Iran and divert $15 million in profits to buy weapons for the Contras, the prosecutor said...
...protecting developed coastal areas could reach $111 billion. Southern Louisiana, which is losing land to the Gulf of Mexico at the alarming rate of one acre every 16 minutes, has already drawn up an ambitious mix of programs. In the biggest project, a $24 million pumping station would divert millions of gallons of silt-rich Mississippi River water onto the coastline to help stop saltwater intrusion and to supply sediment that will build up the eroding land. At least one parish is considering plans for a backstop dike to give residents time to escape should the sea finally reach their...
...poured in from such staid investors as the Harvard and Yale endowment funds and many state pension plans, other money managers are refusing to play. Says New York City comptroller Harrison Goldin, who oversees the investment of some $30 billion in pension funds: "I cannot condone activities that divert so much time and energy from investments that create new jobs and opportunities to those that reshuffle chairs. Pension-fund managers are supposed to invest in the American economy...
...think the use of the Horton tragedy was hypocritical. It was a way to divert attention from the Bush record...