Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smokers who want to avoid flameout: a hurricane-proof cigarette lighter that needs no flint or fuel. Powered by a nickel-cadmium battery that never needs replacement, the Gulton lighter uses a glowing filament like a dashboard lighter. It can be recharged (about three packs' worth) by plugging it into any AC wall outlet. Price...
Miniature golf is especially popular with teenagers, but many regular golfers are addicts. Clayton is planning a $100,000 National Open Tournament for putters in 1965. "It isn't a fad," explained a Putt-Putt executive last week. "We avoid putting in new traps and other gimmicks. What we're doing is building a golf course on which a golfer can score a hole in one on every hole...
...drawings are often too large and too well worked out to be tossed off in such a manner. Hugo signed them in big bold letters, parted with them only as gifts to cherished friends. Far from being casual, says Sergent, Hugo was merely being coy to avoid serious criticism...
Richard Burton tries to avoid seeing his own movies. Will he see Cleopatra...
Threats of Reprisal. Unlike U.S. steelmen, who bank their furnaces when demand drops but keep prices fairly steady, the Europeans prefer to slash prices and keep production high to avoid politically unpopular layoffs and the expensive overhead of idle plants. In addition, Belgium and Luxembourg, argue that they must export at almost any price to get foreign exchange to finance their heavy imports. The angry Common Marketeers contend that the U.S.'s anti-dumping law is outmoded in that it restricts free trade, but they have little hope that the U.S. Government will do anything to encourage further competition...