Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elaborately Wacky. After last month's blockades, the U.S. decided to avoid future "misunderstandings" over the dismounting business by putting all the rules on paper. And the rules...
...this walkway separates the colleges in a cavernous passage while louvered windows peep through sandy slabs. The atmosphere is similar to Yale's Gothic buildings of the 1920s-though one modern-for-modern's-sake critic likens it to a set for Ivanhoe. Determined to avoid the typical cookie-cut module, Saarinen decided that as far as possible no two rooms should be alike. Result: though at first scorned, his Stiles and Morse colleges are the most sought-after digs at Yale...
...classroom battle-many quitting for the suburbs. Those who remain are willing but not always able. The greenest college graduate can get a substitute teaching job; a third of all New York teachers are substitutes, too many of them thrown into the difficult schools that veterans are allowed to avoid. Yet to get a regular teaching license in New York City requires not only a state certificate but also a special city exam given by the powerful board of examiners, a fusty fief run by nine old-minded men. "An Einstein who was also a Professor of Educational Methods...
Much closer links between the two agencies are unlikely. The Defense Department encounters absoulutely no opposition from Congress on its Budget requests and its would prefer to avoid the troubles surrounding NASA projects. The House cuts in NASA's funds not only limited the possibility of reaching the moon by the end of the decade, but they also cut into almost all of the NASA programs...
...present time, some of the schools within the University maintain, their own listings of apartments, which has led to some duplication and confusion. The consensus among University officials is that the new centrally located office will avoid much of the present confusion, and allow a greater degree of attention to the problems of individual students...