Word: averting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late last week Indira lunched with Party Boss Nijalingappa in an attempt to avert the breakup of the Congress. Clad in what she considers to be her lucky costume-a pale yellow sari and a string of large black beads-she suggested that her deposed backers be reinstated. She refused, however, to reinstate the Syndicate members whom she had dropped from the Cabinet. "Not much was done at this meeting." admitted Nijalingappa. "No formula for unity has emerged...
...technology may help builders to avert an almost certain shortage of skilled labor in the years ahead. More important, the localities offering sites have agreed to suspend their building codes and zoning laws for the Breakthrough models. Nothing quite like that has happened before, and Romney obviously hopes to use the program for a persistent attack on local barriers to housing. Later on, he expects localities to combine their building plans into giant orders so that industry can justify capital outlays for factory-produced housing. To induce municipal officials to get together, he can offer them favorable treatments on their...
Freshman coach Dana Getchell substituted freely, but could not avert the lopsided final score. "You don't get too much out of a game like this. We need to have a good test of our ability. I would have liked to have had it today, but we will get one for sure next week." he said. The Yardlings play Exeter at Exeter on Wednesday and host Dartmouth on Friday...
...bows to the opposition and becomes the administrator of policies which he does not really support, his service as Dean is bound to become increasingly frustrating. The only solution is for Dean and Faculty to join in a patient and unremitting search for common ground and the accommodations which avert internal cleavages and mitigate differences between the Faculty and the Administration. It remains our conviction that in the course of this search the Dean's first obligation is to represent his Faculty to the President and the Governing Boards and to report their views to the Faculty...
They charged that they had not been adequately consulted in the formulation of the proposed degree program, and demanded that the Faculty reverse the decision of the Standing Committee, and name a group of black students to the Committee to avert further misunderstandings. The Faculty approved both steps at its April 22 meeting, and Rosovsky resigned the following...