Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...actually signed last week fell considerably short of the official peace treaty for which Malaysia had hoped. It was, rather, a limited declaration of intent-which, at Indonesian insistence, would have to be ratified at home before it became official. This, Malik was frank to admit, was merely to avoid agitating President Sukarno, who has lost most of his former power but still holds out against peace with his old enemy. Besides, Malik explained, "our people have been led to crush Malaysia for the past three years by the former regime. It takes time for us to prepare them...
Harvard encountered difficulty in convincing McNamara to sell, but because of the location the Administration was willing to offer a substantial sum for the land. First, the University offered in the vicinity of $40,000 to $45,000 for the plot; then, in a move to help McNamara avoid paying capital gains taxes on the sale, offered to swap houses. In return for his home, Harvard would provide a house sub-divided into apartments. The apartments would provide annual income, Harvard officials reasoned, and the house's value was comparable to the money offer...
...casualties for U.S. servicemen of any week in the war: 146 American dead, 820 wounded. Communist dead for the same period totaled 1,235. The two sets of statistics indicated the far-ranging, grinding intensity of the U.S.'s continuing campaign against an enemy doing his best to avoid battle. Last week U.S. units were out hunting in force along the length and breadth of South Viet Nam-most notably the marines, who launched a major multi-battalion assault near Quang Ngai on a suspected enemy concentration...
...President's loss in popularity has cost him considerable political capital. Democratic Congressmen, eager to avoid the label of Administration rubber stamps, are increasingly unwilling to support the President's proposals. All Johnson's talents of persuasion have not been able to give the Administration anything more than the narrowest victories for its two most original recent programs, the Teacher Corps and the Rent Supplements Bill. Moreover, these bills had to be so watered as to cripple them both. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a weathervane of Congressional opinion, felt free to kill Johnson's bid to lower...