Word: diverts
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...realization that preserving the biosphere can also save money might be the salvation of the environmental movement if the industrial world should enter a deep recession. It is true that war or an economic downturn might divert resources that could otherwise be used for such projects as restoring wetlands and rivers. But Denis Hayes, the leading organizer of Earth Day, argues that hard times might have the positive benefit of causing people and businesses to change their throwaway mentalities and adopt a more conserving approach...
...late 1988, in which the corporation assumed some $25 billion in debt, the company has lost market share to rival Philip Morris because RJR's management is so absorbed with managing the huge LBO, many analysts contend. In addition, loan payments, which average 30% of corporate cash flow, often divert money away from more productive pursuits, including research, advertising and capital spending. While Phillips Petroleum was digging out from under its $9 billion debt, the corporation had to pass up several opportunities to acquire crude-oil reserves at bargain prices...
...record, I did suggest that Harvard administrators reminded me of Mr. Rogers because they are generally "older white men who treat the young people they work with like infants." I regret this statement because it was misquoted, because it allowed people to divert attention from real issues, but mainly because the generalization is unfair...
George Bush is right -- at least in part -- to be angry at critics who suggest he is skirting the brink of war to pump up his political standing and divert attention from the nation's economic angst. The real danger is far more subtle and menacing. It lies in the environment of the presidency itself. In the splendid isolation of the White House, the best and the brightest in crisp uniforms and Brooks Brothers pinstripes can, with purpose and convincing logic, expound the virtues of force to fill the voids of doubt that come with such crises. That happened...
Then we had to find 10 committed students who were not afraid to champion traditional values. Next, we had to divert faculty members from their learned pursuits to entreat their sponsorship...