Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avert another deficit as bad as last year's $18.9 million, Curtis President Matthew J. Culligan has lopped 2,200 names from the payroll and pushed through other stringent economies. In an attempt to prop up failing circulation, the Post, having already eliminated half its summer issues, announced a plan to lower its newsstand price from 200 to 100 in almost all of the U.S., while raising the price to 250 in certain selected areas. But so far, the economy campaign has met with slim success. In the first six months of this year, Curtis reversed the trend...
...defective gene inherited from both parents, a PKU baby cannot make use of phenylalanine, which is found in most protein foods, and the poison that accumulates in his system as a result permanently damages the brain. But if PKU is detected early enough, a special diet will avert nearly all the damage. The difficulty lies in early detection. In the laboratory, the blood spots on the filter paper will reveal...
...time Macmillan finished, the House was prepared to acquit him of personal dishonesty and moral turpitude, but he had convicted himself of negligence and naivete-or perhaps simply of a fatal ability to avert his eyes from what he did not wish to see. In the vote following the debate, 27 Conservatives voted against Macmillan or abstained. On all sides there were cries of "Resign, resign," and this is what Macmillan will almost certainly have to do-the only remaining question being when...
...Schlosshotel Kronberg, ten miles outside Frankfurt, was built in the late 19th century by Empress Victoria of Germany. "Nothing should avert the eye," she instructed the architect, and nothing does. Surrounded by an extensive park through which an 18-hole golf course now meanders, the castle holds the empress' extensive library and art collection. Guests can scrawl postcards at Emperor Frederick Ill's personal desk. The hotel beds 60 at prices ranging from $16 a day to $45 (for a suite...
...Minister had shared a call girl with a Soviet agent, why was nothing done to break up a liaison that might expose him to Russian blackmail? Was Macmillan told? If so, had the government encouraged Profumo to lie about his dalliance with Christine Kee ler solely in order to avert a damaging scandal...