Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directly affected. If he gets his tax increase, he stands to annoy everybody-and the closer to Election Day 1968 the increase is enacted, the more annoyance he is likely to arouse. Nevertheless, nearly all his economic aides-and many businessmen-consider the tax increase essential in order to avoid an inflationary burst that could destroy the dollar's viability in world trade and its purchasing power at home. Judging from the mood of Congress, he is not likely to get the increase without taking a fiscally responsible ax to some current federal spending...
...came further negotiations on the East African Economic Treaty. It was welcomed by the business communities who promised to stick to it; members were assured that, incredibly, most non-Africans in fact wel- comed its Africanization policy and its emphasis in self-management. The governments involved promised to help avoid the East African nemisis--red tape--in its implementation...
...most part, though, Catholics have become accustomed to the fact of ex-priests in their midst; many of the defectors remain on good terms with friends still in clerical ranks. Nonetheless, former priests generally prefer anonymity and seek to avoid publicizing their ecclesiastical background. Says one former priest from the Midwest, who now is a Boston textbook salesman: "On the whole I have met with very little hostility-but then I don't tell everyone I meet, 'Guess what? I used to be a priest...
...Ball, now chairman of Lehman Brothers International, Ltd., the overseas arm of the Manhattan investment banking house. Last month Ball even suggested that multinational companies be allowed to escape the control of individual nations through a treaty creating an "international companies law." Only thus, Ball argues, can global enterprises avoid "the stifling restrictions imposed on commerce by the archaic limits of nation states" and realize their potential to "use the world's resources with maximum efficiency...
...believe the housewife is unwilling to wait two years or three years or longer before she can be confident that the meat she serves her family is healthful." Best guess, however, is that the subcommittee will compromise on a bill closer to Montoya's version so as to avoid a floor fight before a final vote by the Senate...