Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, no formal negotiations were under way between Cuba and Bolivia. If the Cubans are interested, they will likely wait a while to avoid the public embarrassment of negotiating with a government that they have been trying so hard to overthrow. Whether or not Castro will part with Matos, he would certainly like to see Debray freed. A longtime Castro confidant, Debray traveled frequently to Cuba and spent months interviewing the dictator for his book Revolution in the Revolution...
...path to fame and fortune seemed bramble-free for Estate Planner Norman F.Dacey, 59, when his book How to Avoid Probate! hit the bestseller lists in 1966. But as sales of Probate climbed to more than 700,000, Dacey's troubles mounted too. The American Bar Association took potshots at Probate, which sandwiches 310 pages of do-it-yourself legal forms with a few slices of advice and terrifying examples of the costs of probating an estate. Charging unlawful practice of law, the New York County Lawyers' Association took legal action, which resulted in a $250 fine...
Curle's intense involvement has not engendered false optimism. Asked if there is really any way to avoid conflict during modernization's trauma, he replies sadly, "One would hope so but I'm not so sure." But until he knows for certain, he continues, he's going to keep working at "taking the violence...
...thieves were attentive to minute details. Apparently to avoid recognition, they gave the name of a messenger who had never made the main banking office run before. The man who signed for the money explained away any discrepancy between his signature and the authorized signature by complaining that his hands were cold...
According to Haberler, Schacht introduced a number of measures, such as a tax on travel in Austria, in order to avoid devaluing the mark. Devaluation would have meant a loss of political prestige, and was therefore considered an unacceptable alternative...