Even as airplane travel diverted much from mushers' daily business, the culture endured along with the Iditarod trail, which stretches about 1,000 miles from Anchorage to Nome.
It's so mild and innocuous that it won't divert much attention from the real attraction, a 500-seat house with comfortable seats, adequate leg room, clean sight lines and the pleasing aroma of pristineness that anyone who's ever bought a new car will recognize.
So in that sense it's the perfect show to inaugurate the Little Shubert Theater, so mild and innocuous that it won't divert much attention from the real attraction, a 500-seat house with comfortable seats, adequate leg room, clean sight lines and the pleasing aroma of pristineness that anyone who's ever bought a new car will recognize.
Supporters of the amendment outspent opponents by about 15 to 1. "Unfortunately, our side of the issue couldn't be explained to the public on a bumper sticker," said Herb Garrett, the executive director of the Georgia School Superintendents Association, which opposed the measure, saying it could divert much needed financing from traditional public schools.
This "portability" concept would "divert much needed funds from the highest poverty schools and districts, and would undermine critical targeting of limited Title I funds.
Still, it is unlikely that Mr. Trump's 77-minute performance will divert much long-term attention from questions about his campaign's relationship with Russia, or reassure wavering Republicans on Capitol Hill that their agenda is on track.
The environmental damage caused by the Los Angeles Aqueduct, built in the early 1900s to divert much of the water from the region to the growing metropolis 200 miles away, was worsening and Owens Valley residents were exasperated.
Orphanages, which most frequently care for poor, rather than orphaned children, thus divert much needed support away from families.
Thus, with his own political fortunes ever in mind, Gore worked relentlessly to limit biotechnology's contributions to agriculture and, simultaneously, to divert much of the corn harvest from food to ethanol production.
Second, the charter proposals seen in Virginia would ultimately divert much-needed funding from school divisions, often those that are in the most need.
