It's time for the people who are diverting business for the wrong reasons to realize they are hurting the central marketplace that we need to compete on a worldwide stage.

The risk addressed was that former employees might take advantage of contacts and influence over clients acquired during their employment, and divert business to themselves.

He warned that any New York casinos built within the next few years could divert business from Atlantic City and his casinos.

But officials of the two groups that sued said this would force the pharmacies to absorb the costs of the discounts and could divert business to mail order companies.

But the pressure on prices as well as laws forbidding doctors to ordertests from laboratories they own are diverting business toward large companies.

NBC said that when Sony acquired Columbia Pictures in October 1989, it had diverted business to itself that should have gone to the joint venture.

Mr. Nyati, the economist, countered that ventures like Thebe were likely to empower only an elite, diverting business from others.

Another example is where the director shareholders form a new company and divert into it business previously destined for the old company.

Ben Cooper, Inc.'s financial problems became so severe in 1988 that many customers left the firm and diverted licenses and business to its biggest competitor, Collegeville.

"There is no gain at all to the community if the effect of introducing harmonized restrictions within the communiy is simply to divert business or savings outside the community," he said.