Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME April 30 reports that Beardsley Ruml suggests that corporations may avoid the excess-profits tax by having no excess profits, by allotting to the research department the equivalent of what would have been excess profits. There is a simpler way: the money might be donated to an educational institution, Dartmouth College, for example, of which Beardsley Ruml is a trustee. And there is a still simpler way. Let the officers vote themselves bonuses so as to wipe out what would have been excess profits...
...their strength at Sinuiju, although they have a bigger & better field in their Manchurian sanctuary just across the Yalu at Antung. U.S. intelligence officers guessed that the enemy might launch a massive air effort against the allies, with the claim that it was entirely Korea-based, thus hoping to avoid U.N. retaliation against Manchuria...
...married there had no empire, that he had met his bride in a refugee camp, and that her father had died a prisoner of the Communists? The considerate Nancy town council had even ordered the very French comfort stations removed from the public square, to avoid any possible offense to royalty...
...this way Harvard can avoid endorsing any one point of view, yet present a course which we feel would be interesting and useful to all thinking students. Richard Partridge '52 Thomas Bardos '52 Howard Satin...
...presenting a course on religion, the Administration should avoid sponsoring any one religious point of view or taking a generally anti-religious attitude. This is necessary in the interest of both preserving academic freedom and avoiding unfavorable publicity. The obvious answer here is to have different groups handle the various facets of our religion from their own points of view. About half of the course should be given by ministers, or men of religious convictions...