Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawmen never came close to finding the beehive, despite a statewide all-points bulletin, although they nearly did nail Senator Gene Jones, who had chosen to leave the hideout because he had just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police, Jones was house-hopping around Houston. When a Ranger and another lawman arrived at the place where he was staying, the clean-shaven Jones jumped over a back fence; the police thereupon arrested his mustachioed brother Clayton and, despite his avowal that he was the wrong man, helicoptered him back...
...Middle East without consulting me, and I wouldn't do anything without consulting him." One ranking State Department official endorses Strauss's view of the relationship: "Both Strauss and Vance are acutely aware of rumors about a clash over influence and will bend over backward to avoid...
Even with federally demanded outlays excluded, the JoAes-Conable plan would produce a cut of $15 billion to $20 billion in Treasury revenues. To avoid so great a loss, the Congressmen plan to have the program phased in over several years; they would allow business to reduce its taxes-and add to its investment capital -by about $5 billion next year, permitting the amount to rise to three times that much in 1982. Says Jones of the bill: "This will be the centerpiece of a business tax cut next year...
...total election-year tax cut is expected to be $15 billion or more, and it is traditionally split two-thirds for individuals, one-third for business. Conable, Jones and other congressional leaders have been telling business people to rally behind a single proposal to avoid a repetition of last year's squabble, when big companies preferred a corporate tax cut rather than a reduction in capital gains taxes. The plan for faster depreciation has quickly won the backing of business lobbyists, who get together for breakfast every two weeks at Washington's sedate Sheraton-Carlton...
...disputed that former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White took a snub-nosed revolver along when he went to call on Mayor George Moscone last November. Or that White slipped into city hall through a window to avoid the metal detector at the main entrance. Or that he pumped nine bullets into Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, killing them both. The only question for the jury at White's trial for murder was whether the defendant really knew what he was doing. At week's end, the jury was still...