Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avoid Probate, Dacey...
...first problem was what to call the new agency. "War on Poverty" had to be dropped because it formed an acronym offensive to Italians; the pallid OEO was adopted instead. To avoid a recurrence of New Dealish alphabet-soup titles, programs were given catchy names rather than initials. VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) was an exception, and so was CAP (Community Action Program). At the local level, though, it was acronyms aweigh. Detroit opened TAP (Total Action Against Poverty). New York insisted on BEST (Basic Essential Skills Training) and QUEST (Queens Educational and Social Team). There was PROP (Portland...
...presidents carry into office with them usually amount to no more than a few pledges to defend freedom against communism." However, one must recall the nation's repudiation in 1964 of Goldwater's very specific list of intentions abroad--and he was the first candidate in a while to avoid Richman's criticism. Richman fears that as a result, the burden for policy planning ends up in the tradition-encrusted State Department with obsolete policies, like an insistense on stability in Southeast Asia. What he seems to be suggesting then, is the transfer of responsibility for long-range planning from...
...Office of Education has publicly recognized the need for change and action, but it has internationally proceeded at a minimal pace in order to avoid inciting Southern school boards to massive non-compliance. This hypothetical resistance has clearly been avoided. Last year all but 65 school districts agreed to desegregate and this year as well, massive compliance will probably be the rule. Education officials should regard this as a green light to proceed with all possible speed and pressure. Significant numbers of Negro students must be transferred to white schools. Token desegregation and free choice plans which place the burden...
...avoid the fatal weaknesses of earlier dirigibles, Morse's airship would be constructed of high-strength alloys of titanium and aluminum, the outer covering of durable nylon fabric. Radar and improved meteorological forecasting would enable the ship to avoid severe storms. The use of nonflammable helium for buoyancy and nuclear instead of chemical fuel for propulsion would virtually eliminate the danger of fire and explosion...