Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wherever wage rises can be granted, they are "imperative" to avoid a deep cut in the U.S. worker's take-home pay and in his purchasing power as the nation goes back to a 40-hour peacetime week...
...bureaucratic sub-chieftain could tell Senator Byrd without cracking a smile, the Government always needs more employes 1) in wartime to win the victory, 2) in peacetime to avoid war, 3) in depression to help the needy, 4) in prosperity to avoid depressions...
...sides, to wash down all management-labor problems in a glowing exchange of toasts between John L. Lewis and N.A.M. President Ira Mosher. The agenda committee, aware of the gulf which must be bridged, hopes to confine discussions to such procedural questions as collective bargaining and jurisdictional disputes, to avoid such knotty snarls as the wage-price puzzle...
...this pallid reaction the President was partly to blame. He had shown courage in delivering his message in person, braving the uneasy reception his advisers had urged him to avoid. Yet out of deference to Congressional sensibilities-or perhaps merely out of the traditional American preference for euphemism-he insisted that his plan for universal military training was not conscription...
...Blood centers usually excluded drunken donors just to avoid rowdiness; the amount of alcohol that can be transferred by plasma ranges from slight to zero...