Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diver's back and shoulders from freezing. From the tanks, the liquid air is piped through warming coils that heat it until it expands into breathable gas. Only hazard: since liquid air allows the diver to stay under far longer, he must surface slowly, in stages, to avoid the bends...
...services should be continually rationalized to improve efficiency, to provide stronger incentives to remain in service and thus to reduce training costs and to preserve the skills created by both experience and training, to achieve the best allocations of skills and qualities among and within the services, and to avoid wasting military manpower on jobs that civilians or civilian contractors...
...give them a breakfast subsidy and she agreed. But, the following fall, Mrs. Bunting seemed to have reversed her decision. As the strikers have said, "this announcement took the proportions of a small scandal in the eyes of the girls who had moved off-campus to save money and avoid ... eating breakfast in the large dormitory dining rooms." Meetings with Mrs. Bunting followed; the CRIMSON denounced her; and finally she said the College could afford a partial rebate, but only to girls in off-campus houses more than a block away from the Quad...
...avoid war with China, we advocate an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a halt to escalation. However, given the Administration's present assumptions, it is doubtful whether an American President can resist the pressures toward escalation while American troops are fighting and dying in South Vietnam. For de-escalation to be lasting, we must begin by de-escalation in our minds. We must regain some perspective on the whole question of China and of revolutionary wars. Because our analysis has shown that a victory of the guerrillas in South Vietnam would not undermine vital American interests...
...first-year class. The document criticized the overemphasis on rote theorems and proofs in two basic courses, complained that the faculty was inacessible and overly concerned with maintaining its research empire, and put in a plea for a more critical approach to the teaching of economics which might avoid blind acceptance of models and economic masters...