Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis K. Diamond of Boston and Cornell University's Dr. Fred H. Allen Jr., for developing the technique of total replacement of a newborn baby's blood to avert the effects of Rh incompatibility (to each, $6,250 plus $25,000 for more research...
...time high of $25 billion despite assurances that he had received, on the basis of early data, that they had leveled off -an anti-inflation sign he publicly welcomed two weeks ago. Price rises were announced for shoes, sheet glass, fertilizers and, despite Administration efforts to avert it, most cigarettes (a penny more a pack). Most worrisome of all was a half-percent rise in the crucial consumer price index for February, caused largely by spiraling meat, milk, poultry and vegetable costs. It was the largest increase for any February since 1951, and it came after several other monthly rises...
...perhaps a 50-seat majority. They feared that Labor supporters might be so mesmerized by the poll predictions that they would stay away from the polls in large numbers out of sheer apathy. If that happened, the Tories might indeed turn the tide in marginal districts and, at least, avert a Labor landslide. By any pollster's calculations, however, victory seemed beyond the Tories' reach...
...fiscal tools," called for a "modest" tax hike "to cool down the economy." Of eleven experts who testified before a subcommittee of the Senate-House Joint Economic Committee, three urged a cutback in Government spending and eight favored increased taxes, but all wanted some form of fiscal restraint to avert inflation. "Without an increase soon," said Yale's conservative Henry C. Wallich, "we will run into very serious problems...
Supporters this year should learn from the mistakes of the 1965 attempt. Last year the citizens' committee tried so hard to avert religious controversy that the public remained apathetic, and the legislators were allowed to be swayed by a handful of religious reactionaries and an unjustified fear of condemnation by the Church. If this year's proponents argue just as intelligently and a little more strenuously, they may succeed at last. The passage of the amendment would help alleviate a distressing social condition. And it would prove that Massachusetts legislators are not so benighted as most people think...