Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Castro has also succeeded in marshaling a consensus against the American peace initiatives in the Middle East and southern Africa. This is precisely what U.S. diplomats sought to avoid, through two months of feverish lobbying with nonaligned foreign ministers around the world. The failure of those efforts is particularly bad news, since the non-aligned summit amounts to a Third World caucus on the eve of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly. The U.S. peace moves in the Middle East and southern Africa are therefore likely to face strong opposition before the world body...
...permit system, which governs renovation, and not the buying and selling of units, is an effort to avoid the legal obstacles that have hampered past attempts to prevent the spread of condominiums. Court challenges have already started for the new ordinance, though, and some condo developers predict the new rent control regulations will be outlawed before they're ever approved...
...change in the leadership would make the changes in the department more palatable. The odds seem to have played in its favor. Though Chafin has made questionable decisions in firing three men since he became number one, he has also taken pains to replace them so as to avoid any charges of intentional reductions in the force...
...Core report instructs professors that their Core courses should not just present a set of facts but must provide a "basic literacy in major forms of intellectual discourse." Tatar says she prefers to avoid such inflated prose and is unsure how such notions apply to the humanities, or for that matter what intellectual discourse even means. But she believes she may have unintentionally conformed to the report's exhortation by "familiarizing students with two methodologies: historical and literary." Tatar shrugs. "I always thought the point of education in general was to teach people to think critically. If you want...
...possible. A typical textbook project, the author reports, had nine consultants, including one for "learning skills" and one for "values." Such editions are continually revised to keep up with fashions. In 1975 many text houses were so distressed by women's group lobbying that they ordered editors to avoid such terms as "fatherland," and to replace familiar phrases like "the founding fathers" with, simply, "the founders...