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Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.
Last week the Times reported that hundreds of millions of dollars in IMF loans to Russia may have been illegally diverted through the Bank of New York via the Russian mafia.
Some aspiring Saudi mujahideen, intending to go to Chechnya, encountered difficulties along the way and diverted to Afghanistan.
Used in another context, it is perfectly harmless: waters of a river, for instance, may be diverted to prevent flooding.
His soaring score notwithstanding, Andrews came under fire in 1993 for supporting a measure that would have diverted $1.