Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this book he frequently employs a rather unusual approach--that of using the correspondence of a comparatively obscure parliamentarian to illuminate the characteristic political maneuverings of his period. One of these nonentities was Daniel Pulteney, who joined parliament, Namier tells us, primarily to avoid his debts. Except for achieving this aim, Pulteney seems to have accomplished nothing. However, during the 1780's when Pulteney held office, the relation of the ministry to the House was undergoing a notable evolution. As Namier brings out, Pulteney, "though a parasite throughout, sensed and recorded during his short parliamentary career the change that...
Politics, in general, interests the upperclassmen much more than freshmen or sophomores. As a result the former group is far more aware of the fallacies of interposition and the other political maneuvers of the state to avoid integration. The freshman, however, are poorly informed, and it was from their ranks that most of the troublemakers came last fall...
...even get a conviction of the known lynchers of Mack Parker or the murderer of Rev. Lee. Even though we are told we have a "liberal tradition." how can we be so naive as to think that a few federal officers are going to crumble a social system and avoid civil violence? How can they? A system which is based on violence, from the night-riders to the country court house, may be unwilling to capitulate to non-violent, legalistic means. The whole question may finally be reduced to the words of Byron quoted by W.E.B. DuBois: "Know ye not/Who...
Organizational blunders of this sort have proved nearly disastrous for the Corps; with the constant Congressional criticism the Corpsmen must be careful to avoid similar mistakes in the future...
...large company can avoid becoming specialized," says onetime Ford Executive William Porch, now vice president of Detroit's Fenestra Inc., a maker of building products. In small companies, which usually cannot afford a broad spectrum of specialists, young executives often work simultaneously in marketing, advertising and accounting, sometimes carry out complex negotiations involving labor contracts, mergers and loans. Small companies promote the idea of sharing an expanding future, and are more apt to offer their executives stock options. Some are also beginning to pay higher salaries than many larger companies...