Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, the new government building will give the University added flexibility. It will be able to provide more library space, and this is important. Widener is nearing its capacity, and decentralization is one way to avoid building a major new library building, something a special study group recommended last year...
Many businesses are doing some fast footwork to avoid or soften the blow. The easiest solution is to raise prices. Thus, brewers have suggested that publicans charge a penny a pint more for beer, and the Hairdressers' Federation suggests an increase of sixpence a haircut. Hotels are also announcing or considering price hikes. The London Hilton calculates its wage bill will rise by $2,800 a week...
...principle of the greatest good for the greatest number; that victory in the jungle goes to the righteous rather than to the strong (the territorial defender almost without exception vanquishes the attacker); that the boxer obsessively dabbing at his nose may be doing so in an unconscious effort to avoid killing his opponent...
...black neighbors if not his black countrymen. The talk was friendly enough, but except to be photographed, Verwoerd refused to appear in public with Chief Jonathan. So the visitor had his chat, adjourned to lunch in a private room in a hotel-and flew home the same day to avoid the embarrassment of no room in Pretoria's whites-only hotels for the night...
...open in Lawrence this month. It will handle 450 freshmen, who will share classes, housing and dormitory advisers. All freshmen are expected to be in such a college next year, all sophomores and freshmen a year later. Kansas Sociologist E. Jackson Baur hopes it will help K.U. students to avoid falling into the type he sees at most universities: "A collection of com peting strangers who are incapable of collaborating with one another in a pleasurable pursuit of scholarship...