Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken is entirely unrealistic in the case of J.P. Stevens products. A student being consigned to a Stillman Infirmary bed is not in a position to demand his sheets not be Stevens-produced. Nor would anything but chaos result if athletes were to search piles of towels to avoid the Stevens ones. In both cases, moreover, students cannot escape paying for Stevens when they pay for these services...
...outright promise by the Soviets to ease emigration rules permanently seems unlikely. Still, the Administration intends to avoid pressure tactics for the time being. Said an Administration official: "It is important that we show them our policy is not designed to undermine them or to rub their noses in the dirt...
...party that could deal successfully with Britain's powerful trade unions. As the campaign continued, the Tory lead steadily dwindled; two days before the election one poll even showed a slight Labor edge. There seemed little doubt about the reason for the decline: the personality of Margaret Thatcher. To avoid a major gaffe by their outspoken leader, Tory strategists designed a media campaign to keep her on camera but away from confrontation. Nevertheless, Thatcher's sometimes hectoring, sometimes condescending manner irritated many voters. In one poll last week, she ranked behind both Callaghan and the Liberals' David Steel...
...rights struggles of the '60s, she writes: "During the summer of 1964 hundreds of middle-class white women went South to work with the Movement and, in a fair number of cases, to have affairs with black men. Some of the women were pressured into it (anything to avoid the label of being racist), others freely chose...
...first couple of letters were bad enough, and were analyzed for what they were by several commentators in national newspapers, but Bok's latest salvo--an epistle on the ethical problems of accepting gifts--is the most noncommittal of all. Bok manages to avoid specially referring to the Englehard issue, treats with a few limited hypotheticals to give the appearance of a detailed, clearcut policy, and finally tries to shift the burden of his policy-making to students...