Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointed reference to his liberal colleagues: "We didn't kid anybody but ourselves." Next day the Senate Banking and Currency Committee approved a substitute, trimmed-down housing bill of $1,050,000,000-$240 million above the amount recommended by President Eisenhower, but perhaps low enough to avoid another veto...
...talks with Khrushchev confirmed his own belief that a Khrushchev visit to the U.S. might do some good. With the Geneva conference fizzling to an end, the President and Secretary Herter decided to get the visits announced while the conference was still on, so as to avoid any appearance that the exchange was hastily improvised after the conference failed...
...boat without rocking it. At one point, they got stuck over the problem of whether the West and East Germans at Geneva should be described as "advisers who participated," as the West wanted, or "participants who advised," as Gromyko wanted. Typically, the ministers decided just to avoid any mention of the subject...
...COMMUTER TICKETS are being offered by Capital Airlines for flights between Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Booklet, good for five round trips over one year, offers no dollar savings but permits holders to avoid time-consuming ticket pickups. Customers simply reserve flight space by phone, present tickets when they board the plane...
...which leveled in July at a seven-month rate 32% above last year. So great is the demand for funds to finance home mortgages that Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. warned: "Overstimulation of building activity under currently developing boom conditions" must be held in check to avoid a later downturn...