Word: avoided
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CHUL is strictly an advisory body, and administrators can overrule the committee at will. However, most administrators try to accomodate the committee to avoid aggravating student-faculty rancor...
...strike, "thereby reducing the incentive and capacity for surprise attack." It is not enough simply to advocate a reduction in atomic arms, he added. Concern for national security requires building a huge weapons arsenal while the efforts are under way to build an enduring peace. Said he: "How to avoid nuclear war without succumbing to nuclear blackmail-this is the overwhelming problem of our period...
...suggest, the Soviets have been primarily exploiting targets of opportunity rather than pursuing some detailed master plan, why do you put so much of the onus on them to resist those temptations? Why is it up to them to avoid taking advantage of opportunities that come their way, such as the turmoil in Iran...
...saying that everything that happens in the world that is adverse to our interests and which benefits the Soviet Union is up to the Soviet Union to avoid. But the Soviet Union can avoid exacerbating conflicts that may arise even if it did not cause them. That means they should not dispatch proxy forces, not encourage coups and create a general climate of insecurity, not sign friendship treaties under conditions that will lead to military operations. That burden we must assume, too, in any rational pattern of coexistence...
...Zambia is to avoid widespread famine, it will need 300,000 tons of corn by the end of the year. Kenya has offered 100,000 tons, but this would have to be transported-inefficiently, and perhaps tardily-by road from Kenya and then along the Tazara Railway. Thus Zambia is relying on South Africa for corn and on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia to deliver the food shipments by rail...