Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Condon-Wadlin Act) has proved highly effective. In light of the public sector's enormous labor growth, however, the experts argue that strong laws alone will no longer do. Sound bargaining and judicious injunctions, they say, are the modern way to help political leaders avoid strikes and aid the public weal...
Prestige & Competition. Newspapers use supplemental for a variety of reasons. The Orlando Sentinel takes the New York Times service, even though it is admittedly unhappy with the tone of some of the reporting. "A lot of this is prestige," says a Sentinel editor. "You can't avoid that." Other editors like to write a story from a blend of the services. "Two services are better than one," says San Francisco Chronicle Executive Editor Scott Newhall, "and three are better than two." Even when they decide not to run supplemental stories, editors quite often find them useful. "They...
...good back is only this much," he said, holding his thumb and forefinger an inch or so apart. "It is small things you can do that other guys can't do effectively. On a heavy, slippery field like this, you can't make a violent move to avoid a tackler. You just have to go into him and get what...
...Mayor saved the city from strikes, produced relatively inexpensive settlements, and therefore was not a contemptible practice. But these deals actually produced agreements, which were unfair to the union members; the workers have been increasingly dissatisfied with past settlements. Moreover, the deals allowed the TWU and T.A. to avoid the responsibility for collective bargaining...
Still, one wishes that Tigar and Koelb had been able to avoid such anachronisms as "high muckamucks" and "better dead than red." And I confess to a sneaking preference for Bentley's title, The Private Life of the Master Race, which so perfectly suggests the wealth of Brechtian irony this production missed...