Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of language. They are the only one of India's 14 major linguistic groups that has not been granted a separate state. Sikh Leader Sant Fateh Singh, 54, threatened to go on a 15-day fast climaxed by self-immolation unless the demand was met. Anxious to avoid violence, the Working Committee, of which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is a mem ber, at last committed the federal government to formation of a Punjabispeaking state...
...result: only ten pairs could be matched, and most of those were too fuzzy to be used in evidence if a mix-up case ever got to court. Dr. Shepard concludes in Pediatrics that footprint-ing of babies is worthless. To avoid confusion he suggests that hospitals stick to a name band put on the baby's wrist in the delivery room...
Over a period of years, purchasing films might cost the University less than is spent on rentals, Hunt believes. And lectures could avoid the necessity of placing rental requests with private firms months in advance or accepting substitute choices...
Monro refused to say which Houses ranked highest in the letters of preference. This information will never be released, he said. If it is, he added, the selection system again will become a popularity contest, one evil the new system was designed to avoid...
Morrill speculated that students buying books may have to identify themselves and prove that they need the books for courses, in order to avoid the three percent tax. He wondered if a book sold at a college book store and "the local cigar store" would be exempt from taxation at both places...