Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...propose such legislation. Last week, faced with one of the nation's recurring rail crises, he pledged at a press conference to propose a workable formula that would exclude compulsory arbitration so hated by labor. Next day the President produced a plan that would astutely avert a strike-without eliminating compulsory arbitration...
While the UHS may avert a number of suicides through therapy, it rarely gets to see the students who do commit suicide. "The student who successfully attempts suicide has usually never had any contact with our Psychiatric Service," Blaine said. Thus the UHS has yet to attract some of the most disturbed students on campus...
...angry farmers spoke of a "tractor march" on Washington. Across the Midwest, the 250,000-member National Farmers Union planned to boycott auto and farm-equipment makers because of high equipment prices. In 25 states, farmers who earlier this month were selling off some of their breeding stock to avert a threatened oversupply of pigs and calves, last week began dumping milk to drive up prices by 20 a quart...
Princeton trailed Cornell, 15-12, going into the final match. But the Tigers' heavyweight Ollie Kenen--the man who won the Harvard meet for them--pulled a dramatic pin to avert a three-team tie for the title among Harvard, Cornell, and Princeton...
...next day, however, a group of private citizens and representatives of social work and civil rights organizations announced a proposed boycott of the Boston Schools suggested for June 18. The School Committee met with leaders of the proposed boycott to try and avert it, but negotiations broke off when the School Committee, under Hicks's leadership, refused to sign a statement admitting the existence of "de facto segregation" in the Boston public schools. According to one Boston political observer this is where the trouble began. "In their insistence on a de facto segregation statement the NAACP failed to realize...