Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
...Ways. To avoid the difficulties that beset the first generation of Au-togiros, J-2's Designer Drago Jovanovich took advantage of modern helicopter technology, effecting many improvements in the control and design of the overhead rotor. The J-2's rotor is stronger but also lighter and smaller than previous rotors, enabling it to be run up to speed faster. When heavier rotors used in the 1930s were al lowed to slow down, their inertia prevented them from being revved up quickly, causing control problems...
Almost every private and public authority of the Western countries agrees that to avoid a genuinely serious threat to the dollar, the U.S. must dramatically pare the inflationary deficit in both its domestic budget and balance of payments. Says General Director Max Ikle of the Swiss National Bank: "The welfare of the world depends on confidence in the dollar, and this now depends on American fiscal policies...
...more familiar than Borges with the problems of translation (few know as many languages as he). Having rendered numerous works into his native Spanish, he is now working with Norman Thomas diGiovanni to prepare English translations of an upcoming volume of Borges' selected poems. The pair is trying to avoid the "maybe inevitable mistake" made by Borges' previous translators: "Latin words are natural in Spanish, but may be unnatural and far-fetched in English." The problem is to find a natural blend of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words...
...SECOND problem is that the SFAC has an over-blown view of its own power. Members feel they must use their power cautiously to avoid offense or provocation. They feel a ponderous pseudo-responsibility to perform solemnly and circumspectly. In fact, they have very little power, as the Faculty has shown them...