Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half a dozen 8-ft. by 10-ft. rooms furnished with beds, tables and mirrors. About one-quarter of Parchman's 1,700 inmates have access to these rooms; the three-quarters who do not include disciplinary cases, condemned prisoners, unmarried men and all women (in order to avoid prison pregnancies...
Wellmet's immediate practical concern is to find the patient a job or to bring him to the point where he's ready for a job. The theory is that a patient must have a job to survive in the outside world; he must avoid becoming too dependent on the students, and he must learn to fend for himself. Mrs. Carmel says that the most sensitive problem is matching the person to the right job. Some residents are afraid to exercise their full potentiality, taking a dishwasher's position when they are suited to a responsible and creative job, while...
Another distortion in the tax system is the multiple surtax exemption for related corporations. Normally, corporations pay 22 per cent on all taxable income, but they pay a surtax of 26 per cent on all taxable income over $25,000. A corporation can avoid paying 48 per cent on its income over $48,000 by forming several subsidiaries, each with a taxable income of less than $25,000. There are other good reasons for forming subsidiaries, such as to limit a corporation's liability, but a single enterprise should not receive a bunch of surtax exemptions just because...
...Catholic orders, ranging from the Carmelite nuns to the Capuchin friars, practice the rule of silence. None has observed it as strictly as the Trappist monks who, since their founding in 1098, have made an article of conscience St. Benedict's warning that "those who talk much cannot avoid sin." Trappists have normally been allowed to speak only when intoning the Gregorian chant at High Mass, reciting prayers at five other daily services, and when it is necessary to address superiors...
...student who had borrowed $4000 and who obtained a job paying, say $15,000 the year after he graduated might wish to avoid a 40 year commitment that would take a substantial portion of his income each year; he could elect to repay at once the entire $4000 plus six per cent interest...