Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students with good social and work records. If adopted, such a regulation would be close to impossible to administer fairly and would, at best, be useless. The decisions of house committees would probably vary from dorm to dorm, and granting of the privileges would have to become automatic to avoid seeming arbitrary...
...reducing the number of "first round" admissions, the Admissions Office is seeking to avoid a repetition of its miscalculation last spring, when an unprecedented acceptance rate of 84.2 percent among admitted candidates produced 50 more freshmen than the College had bargained...
...being paid and the method of mine ownership is clear. B.F. Reed may be rich, but his money now comes from banking and other investments rather than from coal exlusively. Perry Country is almost entirely non-union, and the operators have used a maze of dodging techniques to avoid signing a contract. In many cases a mine has been organized, only to have ownership transferred or a new "paper" company set up to run the mine without union restrictions. Because of greater injustices and higher unemployment, the picketing was more violent and tempers are quicker than in Floyd country...
...impressive size turn up occasionally. One. found by Mrs. A. L. Parker of Dallas in 1956, weighed 15.38 carats, and has been valued at $85,000. How many others have been found is something of a mystery. One local rumor suggests that many are picked up but to avoid income tax are not reported. A contrary rumor holds that the field is sometimes salted with rough diamonds to stir up tourist interest. A third rumor whispers that Arkansas would be a major diamond producer if an international diamond combine had not managed somehow to block every attempt to work...
...Lines. Most European businesses began in family secrecy, and as they grew bigger still kept a family attitude toward such outsiders as shareholders and the public. Especially in France and Italy, fear of the tax collector is so obsessive that businessmen avoid even being photographed lest they come to the collector's notice. There is also a belief that dis closure of profits only encourages unions to ask for more money. Officers of European firms make themselves and their plants as inaccessible as possible. France's tiremaking Michelin, perhaps the world's most secretive company, boasts that...