Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admitting only upperclassmen who are candidates for Honors, by expecting advanced calculus to be completed by the sophomore year, and by requiring a thesis for a magna or a summa cum laude degree, the Committee hopes to avoid attracting unsuccessful math students "who want to sit back and take it easy," Birkhoff said...
While the volunteers are in Birmingham, they will not have the same freedoms as they would have if they were still in Cambridge. In an effort to avoid any sort of provocation, the students have been asked to refrain from walking in integrated groups, even though all the Harvard students will be living together at Miles College. Clifton said he hopes that living together will not prove inflammatory...
...enable the FAA and the airlines to make a final choice. Though the extension may delay the date when an American SST enters commercial service to 1973, two years later than the already abuilding Anglo-French Concorde, most U.S. aviation experts feel that the additional study will help avoid costly mistakes...
...page report, the Boston firm suggests a three-phase system of improvements designed to avoid "major land-takings or disruptions to the economic, social, and educational life of the Square...
While the army did act to save democracy, the motive was far from pure: it also acted to avoid the reforms the country needs. The new government is not going to be popular with the peasants, the workers, and the students, all of whom supported Goulart from the left. The anti-Communist purge will make them unhappy, and if the economic situation continues to deteriorate during the eighteen months that the congressionally appointed president will serve, the new rulers will face a tremendous crisis in 1965. An election would probably bring in a candidate at least as radical as Goulart...