Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only are finances and expenditures not matched coherently, but few of the members of the involved committees are aware of any sort of legislative budgetary policy. Slashes are made in budgets with little regard to the importance of items in any positive economic program, since Congressmen only attempt to avoid rocking the economic boat with overly-heavy taxes. Representative G. P. Lipscomb has suggested a remedy with his proposed Joint-Committee on the Budget, which would join representatives of both Senate and House appropriations and finance committees in a body devoted to the consideration of fiscal policy...
...most night schools. "Our endowment wouldn't allow them," Phelps says. "Even if it did, we feel that other programs in the area supply enough vocational courses. This way we fill the real need for liberal arts instruction for adults which might otherwise be neglected, and also avoid over-diversification...
...vision, he could not succeed. His answer was the Professional Man; he wanted his hero to renounce all ease and luxury, to define success in terms of his job rather than his salary. But as Lynn observes, Herrick wrote a series of fiascos because his Professional Men could not avoid, even in their north woods hideouts, striving to become Alger heroes...
...Minister shouldered the burden of coping with inflation-ridden Brazil's nagging economic problems. Minister José Maria Whitaker is a pink-cheeked, white-mustached. 76-year-old Sāo Paulo banker with 13 children, 68 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Brazilians took heart from his promise to avoid "hasty solutions," and from his reputation as a hardheaded financier. A columnist called the appointment "an unexpected miracle," and the free-market cruzeiro climbed from 86 per dollar to 80, about where it stood on the eve of the earthquake...
...another company. But when the machine arrived at Idlewild, it was too big for the hatch of the freight airplane. Finally, after many months, the developer reached its destination. By that time it was March 1952. Don't Skip. In selecting their material, Daly and Donnelly tried to avoid duplication. "But just when we were ready to skip something," says Father Daly, "up would pop something important." In a 12th century Bible, they found the musical notations of a choir master, "all of great value to students of musical history." In one of the many copies of Galen...