Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Roosevelt does not believe the commission's guidelines "will cause a revolution in job patterns," he promised that the commission would "work cautiously" to avoid creating absurd situations. They will doubtless arise anyway. What about the woman pilot who aspires to be an airlines captain? Or the man who loves kids so much that he applies for a job as a nanny? The male homosexual who would like to fit bras for a living? Hardly more farfetched is the case of two prostitutes, Jeanette McDonald and Hattie May Smith, who have appealed convictions in Oakland, Calif...
...changed all that. Then came Dickens and A Christmas Carol in 1843. Within 20 years-thanks in part to countless readings by Dickens himself-Bob Cratchit and his lame son, Tiny Tim, had become the heroes of the holiday, and many an otherwise prudent man plunged into debt to avoid any likeness to Scrooge...
With that, Washington has hoped to avoid reaching for stronger anti-inflation weapons, such as raising the discount rate or increasing taxes. The plan may work. But if the new approach to inflation does not do the job in the next few months and the economy continues to heat up, Lyndon Johnson's advisers may be forced to resort to more classical means...
...plan was amended to proserve the Nat Sci bypass, which allows students to avoid the lower level Gen Ed course in that area by taking two departmental courses. The Faculty voted, unanimously and without debate, to replace two committees--the standing committee on General Education and the special Committee on the Freshman Seminar program--with a new committee on General Education...
Before the Faculty voted to amend the CEP plan, it required students wishing to avoid the lower level Gen Ed course in the Natural Sciences to take either one departmental course plus one upper level Gen Ed course, or two departmental courses plus a course fulfilling the requirements for an upper-level Gen Ed course...