Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important to the rank-and-file, was the question of how a new union might help the BGMA members if a strike ever became necessary. BGMA officers believe that the prospect of a strike at Harvard is extremely unlikely. They contend that the University would do virtually anything to avoid the embarrassment of a picket line marching around John Harvard's statue. But the problem of a strike came up frequently in encounters between the business agents of prospective unions and the BGMA membership...
...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
Canny Chat. Still, as a skilled economist Lleras knew only too well that Colombia badly needed the loan and that there was no way to avoid devaluation. Last week in his televised charla (chat) with the country, he explained that he had reopened talks with the lending agencies and proposed his own "Colombian plan." Beaming, he announced: "Naturally, they accepted it." The plan included further import controls, tight restrictions on capital movement, and something called "full convertibility"-which almost certainly meant a sleight-of-hand devaluation within six months...
...ignoring urgent police equipment needs: tiny radios, night glasses, lightweight armor, heat sensors to detect hidden fugitives, metal sensors for frisking suspects. He also wants someone to develop a gadget to stop a fleeing car's engine and a computerized "instant lawyer" to help police field interrogators avoid unlawful procedures...
...Avoid the Unforgivable. This time, as he has done so often, MacDonald takes off from an actual, contemporary crime. The Last One Left goes back to the 1961 wreck of a 60-ft. ketch that burned and sank off the Bahamas, apparently with only one survivor, Skipper Julian Harvey. Three days later, a freighter picked up another survivor, an eleven-year-old girl, Terry Jo Duperrault. Harvey promptly killed himself-even before the child reported how the debt-burdened skipper had murdered her family and his own wife in a plot to collect $20,000 in insurance...