Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand for some nuts or bolts or screws or something. We would look it over again and decide no, that it wasn't the right way to do it. Our big problem was to decentralize the thing and clarify the policy, simplify the administration and promote efficiency and avoid the concentration of stupidity. That is what I have been working on down here, too, the same way." The hearing room hushed expectantly when Wilson arrived at the Capitol to appear before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, for the Congress that used to bait him now knows him as Washington...
...Network Boss Oliver Treyz took the unprecedented trouble of appearing personally on the Wallace show to make a full retraction of Cohen's vituperation and an apology to those it victimized. Wallace said that he was sorry too. Nobody suggested publicly how the show might avoid such incidents in the future. But Wallace is pondering a lawyer's idea that potentially dangerous interviews be recorded in advance...
HUERA representatives cite the satisfactory settlements reached in the past as evidence of the effectiveness of their elected negotiators. They claim to have followed a reasonable and responsible course, and have been able to avoid recourse to state arbitration. "We go round and round until we come to an agreement, but we've never had to call in outside help," John L. Standring, treasurer of the HUERA, says. "But we reserve the right to challenge the bosses," he adds...
...magazine with a crusade. And it is not any of the other Quarterlies, because they are all pseudo-academic and dull. Audience's aims never become more positive than this, and we must infer them--its aims are to be psuedo-unacademic and, above all, undull. In attempting to avoid dullness the editors of Audience have collected a strange assortment of contributors including I. A. Richards and names normally associated with the Advocate. The impression on glancing at the table of contents is one of a literary Cat'n Racquet...
...what they print and, in effect, provide a person to be sued in British courts. This, plus a promise to indemnify distributors against damages, could leave the distributors free to distribute foreign publications without the "screening" threatened by Smith's. It was not the ideal way to avoid what many Britons were quick to call "censorship." 'There is need, said the New Statesman and Nation, for "a thorough overhaul of the law governing contempt of court, with its arbitrary powers . . . and its medieval refusal of all right of appeal." But, as the Manchester Guardian pointed out, "there...