Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unthinkable. Actually, no would-be candidate can avoid taking a stand-and with 67% of the public on record in favor of continued bombing of North Viet Nam, a soft stance may amount to a political death wish. Oregon's Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, who is articulate, attractive and only 44, has virtually ruled himself out of presidential consideration-at least for 1968-with his dovelike stance. Bobby Kennedy, who led Lyndon Johnson in popularity polls last October, has fallen behind in the latest samplings, partly because of his criticism...
...damaging admission of his reluctance to expose himself to the kind of grilling that a presidential candidate must endure daily-even hourly. He is also in trouble at home, where the state senate has rejected his proposals to levy personal and corporate income taxes in order to avoid a $147 million deficit...
...feud has dominated Council politics for the past year but the CCA thus far has been able to avoid taking a stand on the issue. Time is running out. Tonight, the organization's directors and officers--33 of them--will meet to tackle the most visible evidence of the split; two of the four CCA-endorsed city councillors, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler and Thomas Coates, voted to make DeGuglielmo manager; the other two, Crane and Thomas H. D. Mahoney, steadfastly fought the change...
...three-run Tufts triple in the top of the third proved Dorwart's undoing. It took a perfect relay from Dan Hootstein to Nelly Houston to O'Donnell to catcher Jeff Hall to avoid a grand-slam homer...
...found the eight pages full of faulty economics, he wasn't worried about the effect of these errors. What bothered him was what he considered the narrowness of the critique's "new left" view of economics. The public "dialogue" its authors insistently demanded was just what Gill wanted to avoid. This is Gill's final year as head of the course and he understandably does not want to leave it in a blaze of artificial controversy over issues he considers trivial...