Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be hard-pressed to find a competent acoustician, heart specialist or surgeon who would find the startle of the sonic boom acceptable to society. Air routes that avoid populated areas and economists who agree with the FAA are equally rare...
...understood that the reason for keeping the resolution secret was the Law School administration's desire to avoid division in the University community should the Harvard Administration fail to act. "This is considered a private affair between the Faculty and the Administration," one professor said...
Another reason for eliminating graduate deferments is the strong feeling among federal officials that II-S should not be used to avoid military service entirely. Deferring medical students would not do this, as doctors are subject to a special draft which eventually takes more than half of them. But deferring the students in the fields on the Committee's list would mean virtual draft exemptions for nearly half this country's graduate students. This would be an unacceptable situation to both draft and government officials...
...government could take the time to consider "what will happen there when you do something here," then it might avoid strangling, entangling commitments. The silver-aired Reischauer analyzed the Vietnamese situation 13 years ago just as the U.S. took over from the French. With the foresight he advocates for the Executive, Reischauer warned then, "The French failure to relinquish Indochina has put a heavy burden on the United States financially and could end by costing us dearly in lives...
...avoid future Vietnams, Reischauer urges general acceptance of a stance he has been taking for decades. The American educational system must move towards acceptance of a world history which concerns the Asian civilization as something more than just "what came before the Greeks." A balanced history of mankind--recognizing the enormous sophistication of the ancient Orient--may start the West on its way toward understanding the East...