Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparently based on the belief that our bombing can somehow break the will to resist of a nation with a thousand-year history of independence, which has grown up in the shadow of the Chinese revolution and is now backed by both China and Russia. We should avoid matching wills directly with Mao Tse-tung, who is if nothing else one of history's top achievers in militant will-power...
...surviving him at last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns religion by spitting in the holy water. The action is ineluctable, the outcome foregone and well-augured. The end is a wild, terrible gallop. The old horse rears to avoid running onto the bow of an abandoned boat and the Zamindar falls, his prized blood dampening the sand...
...social injustice depends not only on federal action but on state action, local action, and especially private, personal action. All four are needed. Overreliance on individual action clearly is mistaken. But overreliance on federal action is also mistaken. It can provide an excuse for those who wish to avoid needed state, local, personal and private action...
Svetlana can hardly avoid becoming something of a celebrity in the U.S. Although elaborate security measures were taken to keep her hidden during her first few days in the U.S., it took newsmen less than a day to track her down. Svetlana was staying at the home of Long Island Socialite Stuart Johnson, whose daughter Priscilla is the translator of her book, and she apparently had no intention of staying out of sight entirely. Hardly had she arrived at the Johnson home when she set out on foot for a look around town...
...coping with the global market. "It was really difficult," he says, "to find executives who understood how to deal with people from other countries." Out of that experience has grown a nonprofit business school with the novel purpose of training rising managers of international companies in how to avoid money-losing blunders in foreign lands...