Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawyer" plan proposed by the CLAO last fall. They hoped that clergymen and social workers would help them select families whose credit, housing, or social status indicated a possible legal crisis in the near future. A CLAO staff assistant would then be assigned to the family to help it avoid the potential crisis...
...Asia, really means not so much that theory should correspond to reality, but "that reality should be made to conform with theory." Similarly, the problem of appearance is involved in the concept of face. Partly, face is a preference of form over reality. Partly, it is a cautious avoidance of precise commitments or statements to avoid the later embarrassment of being wrong...
...Canada, where at least five Royal Canadian Air Force CF-104 jets have been destroyed in the past two years by collisions with birds, government-sponsored scientists have devised a new forecasting system that may enable pilots to detour around flocks of birds, much as they now avoid thunderstorms. With the aid of biologists, meteorologists and radar experts, Canada's Associate Committee on Bird Hazards to Aircraft last year converted the R.C.A.F. base at Cold Lake, Alta., into an electronic bird-watching station...
...very least, a stiff fine for her folly. But a remarkable thing happened when she came to trial. Probate Judge Woodrow Barnes led the police chief and Mrs. Godfrey into his chambers at the Tallapoosa Co. courthouse, closed the door, and told them he was dismissing the case to avoid untoward publicity. A reporter had shown...
...none of the resolutions receives a clear majority after two ballots, the meeting will adjourn without an official policy. In an effort to avoid such a failure, club officers have decided to permit two amendments from the floor on each resolution. The procedure is intended to render any final resolution amenable to the greatest number of members...