Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic productions at Harvard. All too often, a college-wide theatre group has been short of funds and, as a result, could not back a large enough production to make a significant amount of money. The proposed committee would, to a large extent, enable a theatre group to avoid lean years caused by financial deficits from the previous season. The new committee would also allow for more efficient scheduling of production dates and rehearsal times. The third power of the committee would be the veto power (by a six out of seven vote) over any suggested program--which seems fairly...
...read 30 books every I day this year, he might have plowed through all the books published in the U.S. during 1957-an experience more than likely to induce a nervous breakdown. TIME'S chief book critic, Max Gissen, and his four colleagues try to avoid that fate, but they do more than enough reading to know America's literary output as well as a broker knows the market charts. For their pick of 1957, see BOOKS, The Year's Best...
...hardly fair to criticize a book for not achieving something its author never intended, but it is still impossible to avoid criticizing a book for being nothing at all. Dr. Farnsworth's book is as close to nothing as any book...
Pealing for all it's worth, tabloid Grit over the years has given a big play to pictures and success stories of persons grittily overcoming handicaps (sample subject: deaf children learning to talk), decorously avoided touchy topics from the Kinsey report to the Confidential trial. Such a dry-cleaned view of the news stems from Publisher Lamade's German-born father, Dietrick, who with two others bought the tiny, two-year-old paper in 1884 for $1,000, and until his death in 1938 exhorted his staff to "avoid showing the wrong side of things or making people...
...starter in 1948, La Cavera helped convince Sicily's parliament to encourage investment with a new law permitting investors legally to avoid paying taxes on dividends by holding stock "in the name of the bearer," i.e., anonymously. To help companies themselves, another law was passed two years later exempting all new industrial enterprises from corporate income taxes (18% and up on mainland Italy) for ten years; all customs duties were abolished on machinery and other goods for new companies. Small business was encouraged by a government finance agency providing loans up to $80,000, big business by another state...