Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardly Happy. Western observers noted that, despite their hard-lining public stand on Viet Nam, the Russians have never been particularly happy about the war there. But to retain credibility in their struggle with Red China for paramountcy in the Communist world and to avoid any sign of weakness, they have flatly rejected appeals from Westerners-especially from Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson last July-to help in launching negotiations that would end the war. "If you want to talk peace," they have said, in effect, "go to Hanoi." For their part, Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State...
Students in Roman Catholic parochial schools are academically ahead of those in public schools-even though their classes are overcrowded, understaffed and lacking many of the teaching amenities that secular education provides. The authors avoid generalizations, but that conclusion is evident in the most exhaustive study to date of the nation's vast Catholic parochial-school system, published last week by the University of Notre Dame. Called Catholic Schools in Action, the 328-page survey, which drew responses from 92% of the nation's Catholic elementary schools and 84% of its high schools, took four years to prepare...
...Britain's chief rabbi, Jakobovits hopes to avoid much of the tiring round of weddings, bar mitzvahs and routine social engagements that go with the job, spend most of his time writing and preaching on contemporary Jewish problems. "Books to us are what armies are to others," he says. Orthodox though he is, Jakobovits thinks he can at least carry on a fruitful dialogue with Reform and Liberal Judaism, says that "the Jews of Britain are tired of conflict and yearning for a new constructive outlook...
...hour by May 1, 1968. The pact also boosts holiday pay from double time to double time and a half, calls for 50-an-hour company contributions (up to $2 a week) toward health and welfare plans, provides the union with what the airlines fought longest and hardest to avoid: an automatic further pay increase of up to 60 an hour if the cost of living keeps rising at about its present pace. With that, the mechanics will not only keep their rank as the nation's top-paid industrial production workers (runners-up: oil workers...
...thousands of purchasers, each of whom is charged a few more cents for his new car. In addition, today's wise manufacturer ignores his own heady advertising and urges customers to return defective products for repairs, thus giving him the information he needs to improve designs and avoid suits...