Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yellin said after the performance that he has begun a full-length opera based on an incident in the life of Andrew Jackson. If he can avoid all the errors he made in his first effort, he may yet produce a good opera in the Thompson-Blitzstein tradition...
...worker from Ansley, La., his wife and ten children (aged 2 to 17), heading for Yakima, Wash., where Minter had a new job waiting. One morning last month, as they approached Fruita in their pickup truck on Highway 6, a car nosed out of a side road. Braking to avoid a collision, the Minter truck skidded and overturned. Margaret, 14, was killed. Mrs. Minter was seriously injured. The other children were cut and bruised...
...multiply business failures in the long run. Government assurance of high markups in retailing can make the field attractive to more entrants than the volume of trade will support. Business failure of drug retailers, for instance, is higher in states which have price-fixing laws than in those which avoid them...
...individual that a spiritual vacuum actually does exist, that there is only one thing that can fill it, and that religion is that one thing? Each individual must decide these questions for himself, unless he would rather have others do his thinking for him, and the state must studiously avoid taking sides. The place for pressure is the home or other private associations...
Fels asserted, "History tends to prove the opposite." He suggested the armed forces should look for ways to develop "smaller, more efficient and flexible services" than existing ones and so avoid imposing impossible demands on the country's manpower and economy...