Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...downplaying U.S. shortcomings, you overlooked the "game" that has frustrated many a young struggling American: the "game" of "it's not what you know but who you know that counts." There are certain clubs to join and certain clubs to avoid. If your father knows J.B., or better, if you are related to J.B., then you can get a job, not necessarily on ability, which allows you to rise faster than the fellow who does not know J.B. This works especially well in our Government-it is a wise man who marries the President's secretary...
Soviet draft prohibits nuclear powers who sign it from giving other countries either atomic weapons or "nuclear explosive devices" for blasting purposes. It assures the nonnuclear signers of their right to develop peaceful atomic power, but it calls upon them to avoid manufacturing nuclear weapons or acquiring them...
...correct answer of several on the blackboard; a student looks confused or stays silent until the teacher keeps asking leading questions and almost answers himself; other students mumble answers, aware that the teacher is attuned to the right answer, and will assume it was given. They fence-straddle, avoid commitment, live for the teacher's approving "yes." It becomes so automatic, Holt writes, that when he selects a number between 1 and 10,000 and asks his students to pin it down by quizzing him, his own "no" to the student who asks if it is "be tween...
...television stations have learned that the presence of lights, cam eras and reporters often inflame riot ers; and overdramatic coverage attracts more rioters to the scene. This summer the networks instructed their news staffs to be as unobtrusive as possible in riot areas, to travel in unmarked cars, to avoid the use of lights, and to cap their lenses when it was obvious that people were performing for the cam era. The Justice Department asked for cooperation in withholding news until violence was under control (TIME, July 14). Broadcasters were also told to check out rumors carefully before putting them...
Even as the indicators pointed toward resurgence, there was talk of tempering the upswing to avoid inflation. Prices generally have been rising, and last week Bethlehem Steel Corp. announced that it was hiking the base price of hot-rolled carbon and high-strength plate by $4 a ton. The specter of inflation has long worried the Johnson Administration and, in fact, is the main reason it gives for requesting a 10% tax surcharge on individuals and corporations. Last week, at the House Ways and Means Committee hearings on the proposal (see THE NATION), many Congressmen seemed determined to resist higher...