Word: avoiding
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...protection fee is more/if the liquor sold is moonshine. Produced in backyard stills to avoid the state's exorbitant whiskey tax, moonshine is occasionally poisoned by the lead piping often used in the stills, but it is cheap. It is the favorite drink of the unemployed or of those, like construction workers, whose employment depends on the vagaries of business cycles and white foremen. For retailers of moonshine, the customer turnover is great, the clientele uproarious, the profit margin low, and the danger ever-present that state agents will move in on whatever still happens at the moment...
...curriculum a coordinated teaching exercise under continuous surveillance and revision by an appropriate body of the faculty do we think that the focus of the teaching can be kept on topics pertinent to the training of physicians. Only in this way, in turn, do we think that we can avoid undue cluttering of the curriculum with factual details. It is not our intent to belittle facts; the biological sciences unfortunately have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce the need to know facts. We make this statement, however, in full...
...probably safe to say that not very many people list dogsled driving as a hobby. No doubt only a few more can say that, while traveling by other means, they have been forced to drive off the road to avoid a moose and have had their leather two-suiter eaten by Eskimos. These very special experiences belong to Ed Ogle, an Indiana-born, New Orleans-trained newsman who for the past nine years has been our bureau chief in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and who traveled some 10,000 miles over his sprawling territory to do the major reporting for this...
...President Chung Hee Park because "today's incident has greatly impaired the prestige and honor of the Cabinet." Though Park refused to accept their resignations immediately, it seemed that a Cabinet reshuffle was imminent. As for Man of Action Kim, he, too, tendered his resignation-probably to avoid censure from the Assembly...
Endorsing a Test. In an effort to avoid censorship of legitimate literature, the California Supreme Court has endorsed the social-importance test as a necessary element in the prosecution of obscenity. In several recent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has seemed to agree. CLEAN's Proposition 16 would retain other Roth criteria but delete so cial importance entirely from Section 311's obscenity test...