Word: avoiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Open Door policy of the turn of the century, the U.S. conceived of its interest as the prevention of any one power's domination of Asia. Nor is it new even in terms of the 1960s; it is a reversion to the pre-1965 approach of attempting to avoid involvement in civil strife. The Johnson Administration justified large-scale intervention in Viet Nam on the basis of North Viet Nam's actions. No one in the White House then dared speak of the conflict as a civil war. Presumably, Nixon would henceforth be considerably more reluctant to reach...
...NASA officials and fellow astronauts, including the crewmen of the scheduled Apollo 12 flight in November. Many of the discussions centered on such technical problems as the lunar module's limited fuel reserves. Because Neil Armstrong was forced at the last minute to take over the controls to avoid setting down in a boulder-strewn crater, NASA has scheduled landings on only the flattest lunar terrain until the LM's fuel capacity can be increased. That will mean no sorties into deep craters or rocky highlands for at least four more Apollo flights...
...garden well watered, fed and weeded. A strong blast of water from the garden hose is often effective against leafhoppers and spittlebugs. Such nat ural predators as birds, ladybugs and lacewings wreak havoc with aphids, caterpillars and oak moths. When poisons must be used, the problem is how to avoid overkill. The preferred pesticides are "botanicals," or natural poisons extracted from plants-for example, nicotine sulphate, rotenone and pyrethrum. Their effectiveness, though, is limited to certain chewing pests and sucking insects, such as Diabrotica and thrips. Some synthetic poisons, for example diazinon, kill more kinds of bugs than botanicals...
...They are beginning to pay for the $10.3 billion in new equipment that they have ordered, including the 374-passenger Boeing 747 jets that will go into service before year's end. In the tight money market, they have to pay about 9% interest on borrowed money. To avoid sinking deeper and deeper into debt, they must get a return of at least 10.5% on their capital investment. Last year their return was only...
...stop such advertising in the near future, since it brought them $50 million in revenues last year. They also argue that printed ads appeal mostly to adults and are less intrusive than TV commercials, which often run while children are viewing. Even so, Senator Moss has warned publishers to avoid accepting "massive print advertising campaigns" and urged them to "maintain current ratios" of cigarette to non-cigarette advertising. Quite likely, publishers will feel increasing moral pressure to drop cigarette...