But it is also like George in the seriousness that underlies its diverting surface.
The movie, which stars Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon, and — in a very unusual role — Jacques Bonnaffé, is a delight, and its diverting surfaces give rise to some profound considerations.
But rather than default on its debt, it diverts money from other spending into paying back bondholders.
"It's an entrepreneurial army, which has had its attention diverted from its stated purpose of defense.
Some Green MEPs have called for ITER to be ditched altogether, and its finances diverted to less grandiose ventures.
"His crimes deprived Morgan Stanley of the honest services of its employee, diverted valuable corporate time and energy in the defense of Skowron and FrontPoint, and injured Morgan Stanley's reputation," she wrote.
The end result was a weakened government and a police force that had its attention diverted away from monitoring organized crime.
Meanwhile, as the citizenry has its attention diverted by xenophobic anti-Muslim harangues, on Thursday night, Republicans in Congress killed the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to help emergency workers and others near Ground Zero.
Recently, strong developmental regulation of ascorbate biosynthetic, recycling and catabolic genes was demonstrated in grape berries, with the ascorbate precursor being accumulate at low levels and its flux diverted towards the synthesis of tartaric acid [ 48].
The United States and South Korea often claim that North Korea is impoverishing its people by diverting its scant resources into building nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
