The Malaysian capital also wants to become a financial centre; and the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, is drumming up support for a "multimedia super-corridor" intended in part to divert information-technology business from Singapore.Increased competition from Malaysia prompted Mr Lee and some of his colleagues to speculate last year about having to ask Malaysia to take Singapore back.
Will Skidelsky puts it thus: "A history of Britain's culinary development as told through its cookbooks, this scholarly volume offers a feast of diverting information".
The permanent exhibition, "All About Shoes," is full of diverting information (why we measure things by feet, the status implications of high heels) and examples of arcane and/or exquisite footwear.
Ironically, galaxies of information divert us from hewing to a core, ancient tenet of survival.
John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence at the time, then authorized spy satellites to be diverted to provide information for Ethiopian troops, the officials said.
Indeed, the majority of managers we spoke to in our global study told us they believe that a broad array of information diverts attention from the core offerings.
But John Coakley, the hospital's medical director, sounds a sceptical note: "Most of the performance indicators are quite sensible but there are just too many of them: it takes a huge amount of time to report the information, diverting clinicians away from more pressing clinical tasks".Homerton has to report information, at least monthly and often weekly, on around 100 performance indicators.
These outcomes are also in line with recent social neurocognitive evidence (Kessels, Ruiter, & Jansma, 2010) and eye-tracking evidence (Nielsen & Shapiro, 2009) that shows that attention is automatically diverted from threatening information in a high-risk population.
Some Democrats have accused the Bush administration of putting out the information to divert attention from the Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry.
Thus agency theory suggests that employees have different objectives than their employers and, moreover, have opportunities to misrepresent information and divert resources to their personal use.
