Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cope with demonstrations, but there were none. The students, unable to decide what to do, did nothing. Similarly, the workers staged no protests. Though they previously had threatened strikes if Dubček or Smrkovský should be demoted, union organizations issued an appeal for all Czechoslovaks to "avoid rash acts...
...Observance of the strike varied widely. Some classes were half empty; others were nearly at capacity. In front of Sever Hall, 75 pickets patrolled with signs reading "U.S. Out of Viet Nam" and "The Corporation is the enemy of the Vietnamese and American People. Don't Scab." To avoid violating the picket lines, some professors moved their classes outdoors. In one physics lab, someone had chalked on the blackboard: "No classes today -no ruling class tomorrow." The instructor told the five students present that the phrase constituted the day's lesson...
...legal decisions that are necessary for organ transplants. For one thing, it allows a man to donate his body through any "written instrument," not necessarily a will, thus providing a way around the delay of probate. The law also permits survivors to donate a man's organs; to avoid time-consuming quarrels, it lists relatives in an order that determines whose wishes will prevail (spouse, adult children, parent, etc.). Anyone who wants to donate organs may carry a card that will, when he dies, be satisfactory authorization for transplant surgery...
...been one of the most controversial points-the question of when a man is considered dead. Because doctors are only now starting to agree on a scientific definition of death, none is included in the act. Instead, the decision is left to the dying man's physician. To avoid a conflict of interest-and overly hasty removal of organs-the attending physician who declares a man dead may not be on the team that performs a transplant...
...last sentence of Pusey's memo to department chairman, viewed by some Faculty members as ambiguous, reads, "The Corporation expects that care will be exercised to avoid any implication that a request for deferment is an official act of the University...