Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Britons now agree that their country needs to get into the Common Market if it is to avoid becoming a "Little England." If Wilson wants to be the man who leads it in, he must now regroup his forces and begin a renewed effort that will need to be at once more aggressive and yet more sensitive...
...what one regent calls "a tragedy-because no one wanted it to happen then." Although a majority of the board had long since lost faith in Kerr, they did not want his dismissal to coincide with a new Governor's assumption of office, precisely in order to avoid the political implications. But Kerr's ultimate fate was foreordained. "Good as he is-and he is damn good," says one regent, "he had developed enough barnacles that...
...vote of confidence." Kerr, also understandably, saw it more as "a clarification of status" and, believing the votes were against him, as "a suggestion for quick execution." Some regents, however, felt that Kerr was gambling on the possibility that the regents would not dare fire him in order to avoid the charge of political interference...
Last week the Commerce Department reported that inventories swelled at the precarious rate of $16.4 billion a year during the final quarter of 1966, thus breaking a record set during the Korean War. The resulting $135 billion inventory stockpile already is forcing manufacturers to cut production to avoid a glut of unsold autos, appliances and television sets...
Kennedy also declared his intention to investigate reports from various colleges and universities that many of their students are in college not to get an education but to avoid the draft. Elder's reaction to this was: "I think such reports are unproven and unprovable...