Word: diverting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indictment, among other things, charged that North and Secord conspired to divert millions of dollars from the sale of U.S. government arms to the alleged "Enterprise...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan's former national security adviser, John M. Poindexter, and fired White House aide Lt Col. Oliver L. North were indicted yesterday along with two arms dealers on charges they conspired to divert Iranian arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan contras...
...including a review of Harvard's educational programs on South Africa. The educational program seems to be a sound one, having received the approval of Black South African notables such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Their approval, however, has been contingent upon it not being used as a smokescreen to divert attention from the question of divestment and that is exactly what the administration will be doing by bringing it up on Saturday...
...working on more esoteric subjects. Professors may withhold the publication of their findings until they reach the patenting stage--as happened several times last year in the field of superconductors--even refusing to informally discuss their research with their colleagues. Consulting or using university facilities for commercial research may divert faculty time from research and teaching duties...
...days, has been captured on video showing all his Pentecostal fervor. The networks last week showed clips of him waving his arms as he spoke of curing hemorrhoids. In an interview with David Frost that aired this Sunday, Robertson defended the time he prayed on his television show to divert the course of Hurricane Gloria, adding of the storm's subsequent shift toward New York, "I think it was divine intervention." Bringing the Holy Ghost in on the cure for hemorrhoids seems, on the face of it, to disqualify the practitioner of such "solutions" from sitting with the National Security...