Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small wheels. In a recess time summation of the "50 most important bills passed by the Senate," so far, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had to pad even that list with essentially trivial legislation, e.g.: "H. R. 3233 ... makes it a federal offense to move across state lines to avoid prosecution or custody for arson...
...hard-lived centuries the Senans have paid no taxes; between last November and February they sent five doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When he heard that the island was again without a doctor, he volunteered his services. At first, Dr. l'Haridon was delighted. In his first week he set a fisherman...
Wherever Americans go, they can hardly avoid other Americans even if they want to. But few do. Around the world, they have one universal rendezvous for free advice, mail from the folks and, above all, the reassuring sight of fellow Americans: the nearest American Express office. It is the tourist's "home away from home," in the cozy words of American Express President Ralph Thomas Reed. A handsome, hazel-eyed man who looks like any other tripper when he goes abroad, Reed is the businessman who first applied to foreign travel all the ingenuity and resources of U.S. industry...
Conant goes on to decry the tendency of some universities to hire part-time scientists who avoid basic research in favor of contract work. As a result, Conant notes, "It would be safe to say that a majority of American students who receive a bachelor's degree study in an institution where little or no first rate research or scholarly work is in progress...
Last October a Committee on Compensation began a study of the problem which culminated in its recent report to President Pusey. Without the businessman's expense account to avoid taxes, the Committee has come up instead with a plan of fringe benefits for increasing the payroll by approximately 10 per cent, or $480,000 per year. The problem now lies in distributing these funds in a way which will meet the most pressing needs of professors. Under the recommended plan, with the exception of a scholarship plan for faculty children and a transitional retirement program, faculty members at each rank...