Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this month began requiring that banks in the U.S., including U.S. branches of foreign banks, keep 8% of their new borrowings from the Eurodollar market in reserve; thus they can lend out only 92½ of each new Eurodollar. But U.S. corporations have already found a way to avoid the regulations. They can borrow Eurodollars from a foreign bank at about 1% lower rates...
When we first contacted Dr. Motlana, he invited us to his home in Soweto. What we didn't know at the time was that whites must obtain a special visitors permit from the government to enter the black township of Soweto. To avoid the troublesome process of getting a pass, we suggested that we meet for dinner Johannesburg and asked Dr. Motlana to choose a restaurant. He politely declined...
Even if this film were consistently funny, it could not avoid ticketing as slick Hollywood escapism. No dumb palooka, Pakula has proven capable--with Klute and All the President's Men--of far worthier cinematic ventures. But given the dearth of screenplays in Hollywood, the flipquel will probably haunt us for years. Watch for Queen Kong...
This decade Le Canard has been more enterprising. It revealed that the Gaullist resistance hero Jacques Chaban-Delmas had used legal loopholes to avoid paying income tax for three years, virtually killing his bid for the presidency in 1974. The Duck also unearthed some questionable financial dealings by the murdered Prince Jean de Broglie, a man with close ties to the Giscard administration, and printed the income tax dossiers of both Giscard and Aviation Tycoon Marcel Dassault. The government paid Le Canard a bumbling tribute one night when its agents were discovered in the paper's offices trying...
...slop; frozen fingers committed eleven errors in the first three games. The vagaries of nature were compounded by the fact that for television reasons, five of the Series' seven games did not begin until 8:30 p.m., and a sixth was scheduled for late Sunday afternoon to avoid a ratings clash with pro football...