Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lindsay has been repeatedly criticized for not getting involved in the negotiations early in December. His detractors feel that even if his participation had not been able to avert the strike his inaction was inexcusable. But Mayor Wagner had objected to Lindsay's participation in city government before he took office. More important, was Lindsay's belief that the collective bargaining was an affair between the union and the autonomous Transit Authority. He rightly believed that the government should enter a labor dispute only when an impasse has stalled fruitful negotiations. On New Year's Day, however, despite all efforts...
...Ours." Pakistan eagerly awaits resumption of U.S. military aid, which was halted when the Pakistanis used U.S. weapons against India. While Ayub was hopeful that the U.S. would continue to exert economic pressure on India for a Kashmir compromise, Washington last week promised to 1) help New Delhi avert a famine by accelerating shipment of 1,500,000 tons of grain and 2) stimulate its own food production by granting a $50 million loan for fertilizer...
...Autos. The Government's release of stockpiled copper was different from its aluminum dumping. Copper is in short supply, partly because of the increased demands of the Vietnamese war, and the industry actually welcomed the Government's release of the metal as a way to help avert bottlenecks. In fact, the industry had raised prices in response to increases abroad. But Defense Secretary McNamara, announcing the news at one of those evening press conferences that threaten to become habitual, left little doubt as to what he thought about copper's price rise-or anyone else...
...over Dartmouth for three quarters before the Indians rallied to beat them 20-17. Bulldog quarterback Watts Humphrey passed to tiny Court Shevelson for one score and ran for another to give the Elis a 17-7 halftime lead, but the scored two touchdowns in the last period to avert disaster...
...went on. In Salisbury, Smith postponed for a day his Cabinet's decision on U.D.I. At last, he claimed it was finally made, but refused to announce what it was. Instead, he fired off a cable which, with measured stridence, told Wilson it was his last chance to avert "the implementation and consequences" of "our decision," demanded again exactly what he had been demanding before: independence under the present constitution. But there was one thin straw of hope in the message: "We again offer you a solemn treaty to guarantee our undertaking...