Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty minutes later the party encountered the revolutionary Colonel Diógenes Gil in a car with a civilian chauffeur. Colonel Gil straightway sought the President's ear. The situation, he said, was serious. To avoid bloodshed, he suggested, the President should make him Minister of War. The President was outraged...
Contract settlement will be one long cat-&-dog fight, and Bob Hinckley knows it. To avoid trouble, he will aim for speed, fairness and uniformity. Soothing irate industrialists who feel that their competitors may take off too far ahead of them will require a maximum of astute diplomacy. "It's staggering to look at," Hinckley said, "but I believe it can be done...
...point. But marines have long since learned that one grenade does not always finish off the occupants of a cave or pillbox; almost invariably there are five to 20 Japs in whatever hole you might expect to find one. Besides, the Japs often dig trenches within the caves to avoid the grenade explosions...
...Dictator. So long as he can operate his dictatorship in his unique way, 'Somoza prefers to avoid violence. "I want to treat everybody good," he says. "But if they don't come across, Godammit, they better remember I got an iron fist under my silk glove. I pray to God that the glove never rips...
Payment Deferred. If this was a scheme to avoid paying taxes, Congress had aided and abetted it. For 30 years. Congress has ruled that pension, payments, like wages, are deductible for tax purposes, and thus encouraged the establishment of pension plans. Thereby some abuses began, i.e., paying top executives deferred bonuses in the form of pensions. Congress tried to chink up these loopholes in the 1942 Revenue Act. Now in practice the Treasury must approve all plans (it approved Loew's) before tax deductions are granted. In effect, the corporations whose pension plans were avoiding taxes were doing what...