Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems caused by the mites -matted eyelashes and itching lids-are best treated, Jacobson says, by careful washings with mild soap. Because Demodex feeds on the oily secretions of the hair follicle, women who avoid soaping their faces and use only cleansing creams (which do not remove facial oils) are natural targets for the tiny parasite. Regular washing reduces the Demodex population, but no way has been found to drive away all the mites. Until such a remedy is found, Ophthalmologist Coston says, "man must remain the dish of his uninvited guest...
...acres largely controlled by the Texas-based Austral Oil Co., which is paying 80% of Rulison's initial cost of $6,500,000. (Austral has contracted to sell the Rulison gas to the Colorado Interstate Gas Company). No one denies that the blast could be dangerous. To avoid injury from possible shockwave damage, 35 families living within five miles of ground zero will be evacuated. Residents up to nine miles away have been warned to stay outside of buildings; miners within a distance of 40 miles away will stay above ground...
Life insurers have tied up with mutual funds largely in belated recognition that the two forms of investment compete directly for the consumer's money. Insurance firms are spreading into other businesses at least partly to avoid takeover by the conglomerates, which have lately been casting covetous eyes at the enormous cash reserves maintained by most insurers...
Early in the book, Inglis witnesses enough questionable behavior in a colleague to warrant an urgent report. Instead, by vacillating and torturing his conscience, he manages to avoid any action until after page 300. "You're so bloody subtle, Robert," grumbles another character. But Robert, for all his interlocking scruples, is like one of Jane Austen's sensibility-struck young girls, finally a figure...
CENTURIES before La Cosa Nostra was heard of in the U.S., the Mafia operated-even as it does today-as a brigand government in much of Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to avoid just such oppression as the Mafia offers, a few among them formed a new Mafia in the new country. In the crowded "Little Italys" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey among people who had been taught to dread the terrorists' Black Hand...