Word: avoiding
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...quality of faculty members depends a lot on the department from which the concentrator draws most his courses. The required courses and those most often taken by concentrators are usually well taught. And judicious planning allows one to avoid most of the unfortunate expenses...
Because of past incidents, however, many observers believe that there will be more violence if CNVA returns to Boston. Klotzle said yesterday, however, that "we're going to do every- thing we can to avoid it "[violence]". He said those people leafleting would arrive unannounced at the high school and try to avoid building up a crowd...
...principle of permitting non-military national service is an old and established one. But few persons are willing to go through the long, arduous process necessary to obtain C.O. classification. The result is that most draft-eligibles, especially college students, actively avoid fulfilling any national service requirement. Because there is no practicable alternative to the draft, students unwilling to fight but otherwise eager to serve their country are placed in the position of rejecting the concept of national service altogether. Moreover, those pacifists who are willing to serve in a peace-time army on the probability that they will never...
...language, they would have found the opening address of Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev heavy going. For 4½ hours he droned on, neither reading the Red Chinese out of the Communist movement nor declaring war on the U.S. His few references to Peking were apparently calculated to avoid polemics and make Moscow look mature and dignified. Relations with Peking, he allowed, "unfortunately remain unsatisfactory," but Russia is still willing to meet "at any moment with the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party." Brezhnev trotted out routine Soviet attacks on "U.S. aggression" in Viet Nam, with "more than...
...that of a wonder worker who explained the world's mysteries and seemed to have somewhat more interest in punishing men than rewarding them. Life was a vale of tears, said the church; men were urged to shun the pleasure of life if they would serve God, and to avoid any false step or suffer everlasting punishment in hell. It did little to establish the credibility of this "God" that medieval theologians categorized his qualities as confidently as they spelled out different kinds of sin, and that churchmen spoke about him as if they had just finished having lunch with...