Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The program examines labor-management relations in the light of last-ditch attempts to avoid a nationwide railway strike...
...junior year we often submit to our ignorance, ruling out of our possible education books we cannot understand and accepting as truths the cliches of the classroom or the text-books. We are likely to avoid difficult intellectual questions, for to think about them honestly might be to change our conception of ourselves, our potentialities, our futures. We are nearly self-assured but beneath pose often lies the feat of confronting new information...
Kennedy's impact on Washington is seen in countless ways. Cigar sales have soared (Jack smokes them). Hat sales have fallen (Jack does not wear them). Bureaucrats show up at work in dark suits, well-shined shoes, avoid button-down shirts (Jack says they are out of style). The more eager New Frontiersmen secure their striped ties with PT-boat clasps-and seem not the least bit embarrassed. The most popular restaurants in Washington are Le Bistro and the Jockey Club, which serve the light Continental foods that Jackie Kennedy features on the White House menu. The less palatable...
...best we can do now is to avoid having any more. I knew this was a difficult place, but I thought I could work here without getting too frustrated. I found I couldn...
...John F. Kennedy's main contribution to business confidence has been his new attitude toward business. After his blunt attack on the steel industry last year, he has taken pains to avoid further offense, and pleased businessmen by his restraint in not interfering with the new price rise by steel in April. The businessman's new attitude toward the President is summed up by Monroe Jackson Rathbone. 63, a chemical engineer who followed his father into a job at Standard Oil (New Jersey) and rose to become president of the $10 billion-a-year company. "President Kennedy...