Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength on principle. Conceding that the forces could be quickly sent back, the general argued that the U.S. might find it "politically undesirable to do so because to take action at a time of tension or time of crisis might trigger the very event you are seeking to avoid or deter." So far, the Administration has compromised on the figure...
...retrospect, the trial probably did the U.S. some good. Paris' L'Aurore dismissed it as "a circus." Le Figaro Litteraire accused Sartre of "childish ness." London's Observer said that the trial gave an excuse "to those who want to avoid thinking seriously about Viet Nam." It did more than that. It finally exposed the extreme critics of the U.S. position in Viet Nam for what they are -cynical and ridiculous...
...cheat more than men. The Charlotte Observer had scarcely finished discussing the social stigma of syphilis when it published a report on life inside a nearby women's prison. Along with elegantly displayed fashions, Long Island's Newsday furnished readers with a list of 13 ways to avoid a child molester - just as past women's pages would have listed the ingredients of a recipe...
Neither institution will drop any courses to avoid overlap with those offered at the other, both presidents emphasized. They predicted that the program would serve to strengthen weaker areas of their schools when exposed to stronger departments at the other...
Among economists and businessmen alike, today's foremost worry is how to keep wage escalation from becoming inflationary as the economy regains its momentum. "The major question is not whether we avoid a downturn, but what kind of advance we are likely to have," says Raymond Saulnier, who was chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers and is now a Columbia University economics professor. Because the upturn will begin with low (currently 3.6%) unemployment, "it is virtually bound to be inflationary," insists Arthur Burns, another Eisenhower CEA chairman, now chairman of the National Bureau of Economic...