Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having failed at persuasion, Johnson tried ill-disguised pressure. He ordered a freeze on all nonessential government spending-notably the pork-barrel, river and harbor projects so dear to most Congressmen-as an economy move. To avoid the appearance of arm twisting, Johnson did not announce the move himself, instead reiterated his plea to Congress to enact his tax bill and cut expenditures. "I know it is not a popular thing for a President to do-to ask anyone for a penny out of a dollar to pay for a war that is not popular," Johnson told savings-and-loan...
...North Viet Nam's war material moves, they have cut off rail and road links between the port and the rest of the country. The buffer zone and Hanoi itself have been hit sporadically, with pilots striking only at specific military targets and taking special care to avoid civilian casualties. Understandably, neither aviator favors a bombing pause. Said McConnell: "If you ever release the pressure, they will be just that much better off." The bluntest remark on the subject came last week from Air Force Colonel Robin Olds, 45, the World War II ace who downed four MIGs...
...declining the Harvard Undergraduate Council's rather harmless request for a meeting last week, the Committee on Houses has predictably stirred up exactly the sort of drawn-out discussion it wished to avoid. Dean Ford, acting as spokesman for the Committee, said its members were sick of the parictals issue; so, without a doubt, is every other member of this community...
...decision to design the Cortina was made, Ford began a crash program with an eight-man design and management team under Beckett's direction. With an accelerated production schedule-only 20 months from programming to production v. the usual 30 months-Ford could not tolerate errors. To avoid them, Beckett filled a 400-page "Red Book" with each of the car's 10,000 parts listed according to projected weight and cost. Each entry was personally signed by a team member, so that success became a personal burden...
...extreme tactics. The untenability of restricting parietal hours can only make the masters seem insipid when they are interviewed by CRIMSON reporters. The proposed mass "sleep-in" would pervert the delicacy of sexual freedom by turning Harvard into a huge bawdy house. Surely we can expect the university to avoid both calamities...