Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friendly Five. To avoid a head-on collision with France, the ministers of the "friendly Five" worked out a com promise formula that is not likely to satisfy anyone completely but may cool matters. The formula agrees that Brit ain should be given a definite answer to its application by the Six this week, just as London demands. But it further provides that if France's intransigence prevents a unanimous reply, as seems certain, the whole matter will be put off and discussed later...
...center for the Seventh Fleet; the arrival and departure of U.S. ships coming off patrol duty off Viet Nam is recorded on an updated blackboard at many a bar-dancehall in its famed Wanchai district. Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore get fewer applicants-mostly those who want to avoid the sight of fellow Americans...
...give the wounded everything but sympathy. "That's the last thing they want," he says. So he deliberately throws open the door of a ward and yells: "Okay, fellas, don't get up!" To a G.I. who has lost an arm: "You'll do anything to avoid the draft, won't you?" To another: "Did you see the show this evening, or were you already sick?" In the hospitals or in the field, it is not the cheers or the applause that affects Hope most, but "when one of those thick-necked kids come...
...move is not entirely voluntary Since the < 1930s, U.S.-based A.P. and British-based Reuters have swapped domestic news in order to avoid setting up duplicate bureaus in both countries. But the deal became lopsided as more news originated in the U.S. and less in Britain. Last year the A.P. demanded an extra fee from Reuters to continue the arrangement. Rather than pay, Reuters decided to expand its own small news-gathering operation in the U.S. Similarly, last April A.P. linked up with Dow-Jones to provide an international financial news service, a field in which it had no serious...
Although scientists had previously accomplished this feat, the DNA molecules they produced had breaks in their strands and were not biologically active. These separations, scientists believe, were caused by enzyme impurities in the DNA polymerase. To avoid this pitfall, the Stanford team had concentrated on the complete purification of its DNA polymerase, but could not be certain that their effort had paid off without calling in expert help...