Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union leader. With a small army of the down trodden but upright marching behind him, he would brave the company goons who surrounded the steel factory where wages were worse than working conditions and the boss beat his wife. But even the most wishful of modern day dreamers cannot avoid thinking that a union leader is a paunchy, jowelled man with a cigar in his right fist and a Madison Avenue lawyer in a tweed suit at his left elbow...
Conflict of Interest. Like any public servant, the union official may invest his personal funds as he pleases-as long as he is "scrupulously careful to avoid any actual or potential conflict of interest," e.g., by owning a "substantial business interest in any business with which his union bargains collectively," by accepting "kickbacks...
...only rule was to avoid political discussions. "We knew we couldn't change an Egyptian's point of view by arguing with him," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman. "The most we could hope to do was to open his eyes." Some were hard to convince. One Egyptian refused to believe Israel was not starving until he ordered a ten-egg omelette in a café, was served it by the owner without comment...
After deliberating for an hour, the court-martial found Kenyon guilty of acting "willfully" to avoid carrying out "a warlike operation in the air when under orders." Sentence: dismissal from the service and one year in jail...
Harvard's varsity basketball team will have to play its best game of the year tonight if it is to avoid a sixth consecutive defeat...