Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Curry Goat and Empanadas," and the nest egg of Leonard and Daphne Matthews. Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care of the rest--but harder still to avoid, since everyone in Dudley Station seems to know where it is. The place opens every day for breakfast at 5:30 a.m., stays filled with customers until after noon, and finally closes after dinner...
...embarrassing. There are performances in this film--why did Julie Andrews cut her hair and leave Germany?--that are unspeakable. And there are parts of this film--critical explanations that might help you understand what's going on and why--that were left on the cutting room floor. Avoid...
...feel that we must decide between eating plants or eating animals [Nov. 5], then we should avoid eating plants and indeed cherish them with loving care. Plants not only produce all the food for both themselves and animals but also keep the oxygen supply of the earth constant against our ever increasing destruction of it. On moral grounds as well as biological, if we feel we must choose, it is clear that we should insist on eating only animal products...
...events in Iran come as almost unmitigated good news, at least in the short run. The Kremlin is eager for the world, particularly the Third World, to believe that America is on the defensive, if not on the retreat. At the same time, the Soviet leadership is anxious to avoid the impression that the U.S.S.R. is leading the charge. That would violate the 1972 code of détente, which enjoins the superpowers from "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage," and it would jeopardize SALT II as well. Therefore, the Soviets prefer that the U.S. seem to be in a losing...
...offices, top administrators have quietly suspended all action on chemical dumps despite evidence that 90 per cent of the nation's 50,000 hazardous waste desposal sites are leaking. "Because of pressure from the White House to fight inflation," EPA branch chief William Sanjour reports, "we were directed to avoid regulating hazardous waste from the oil and gas industry, electric power companies, and other large industries. We were told to do things which we knew were not right. We were required to write public documents which we knew were misleading...