Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...benefit the impoverished millions desperate for work, social services, or both. The 600,000 jobs promised by López Portillo, to cite one example, are 200,000 fewer than the number of youths who enter the work force every year. On balance, though, U.S. policymakers believe Mexico can surely avoid the kind of wrenching upheaval that led to revolution in Iran. Corrupt and sluggish though the P.R.I, may be, it is also a broadly based force for political stability. And for the next three years, it will be controlled by a President who, U.S. officials agree, is a strong, talented...
...they avoid arrest, the protesters will head first for the building which will house the nuclear core of one of the two reactors under construction at Seabrook...
...Boston, 1000 protesters outside Holy Cross Cathedral chanted "stop racism now" and held up placards to attract the Pope's attention. The racially-mixed demonstrators were protesting the shooting of a high school football player last week in Charlestown. The Secret Service rerouted the Pontiff to avoid the protesters...
When too many of these fuel rods pile up, though, they are moved to racks in a deep swimming pool for storage until MIT ships them to Barnwell, S.C., every year or so. The rods must be kept a certain distance apart to avoid a critical mass, which could set off a nuclear reaction. Reactor officials face a new problem since dump sites like Barnwell are increasingly hard to find...
...Boston College group arrives, six guys and a girl who walked six miles to see the Pope. One, a freshman from Elkhorn, Nebraska, wants to avoid TV cameras. "What if my mother saw it? Sleeping in the streets, cup of coffee in my hand like some bum, and I'll be back to Elkhorn in no time...