Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight changes, which could easily be faked. Airline pilots used to change course with great frequency; jets once scrambled 200 times a month to check on incoming international airliners alone. Now, with the help of special identification systems, international interceptions are down to about 30 monthly. Airline pilots, to avoid the arrival of curious jets, stay more closely on course...
...context of other contemporary works. The composer's most obvious asset is his sense of musical balance and proportion. Scoring for three equal instruments imposes severe demands on such ability, and if Mr. Akustin does not always succeed artistically the pieces are at least short enough to avoid monotony. As in the Modal Canons, his fascination with problems in counterpoint tends to exclude (or avoid) those of expression. But with such technical competence, perhaps he will produce a more personal work in the near future...
Favorable Battleground. Partnership protagonists in Washington expect to avoid the big error of the Marshall Plan-that of handing over U.S. aid on a government-to-government basis. As soon as the pumps are primed, partnership loans to governments would be quickly tapered off, and the building of dams and factories left to private capital, operating for profit. The partnership would also provide U.S. and European technicians, to teach Indians, Bolivians, Egyptians, how modern industry is run. U.S. experts believe that atomic-energy reactors might be used efficaciously to provide some of the power for industries in fuel-scarce areas...
...were also useful provisions designed to handicap the Communists, e.g., eliminating the chance of Communists getting interim Cabinet posts after a government falls. La Réformette has been kicking around Parliament for four years and was not Mendès' baby, but he demanded that the Assembly avoid a national referendum on the issue by giving it a three-fifths vote. The Assembly obliged...
...ventilated. There are some gleaming exceptions, among them the Clinical Center of the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles, the Jefferson Medical College Hospital's new pavilion in Philadelphia. But no U.S. hospital has been more carefully designed to avoid the old inadequacies than Houston's Anderson...