Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eleven" to take advantage of the special facilities, laboratories, and faculty of another university. For example, an Iowa grad student might avail himself of Michigan's Far Eastern Language Library, Wisconsin's biotron or Chicago's colonial historian, Daniel J. Boorstin. By consolidating doctoral study, the program plans to avoid duplication of effort and expenditure wherever possible...
...staff, located at Purdue, "implements committee decisions and functions as a catalyst." As a "kind of communications center," the CIC's function, as stated in the 1962 Annual Report, is "to aid member universities in improving educational and public services by adding strength to strength, as well as to avoid excess costs by minimizing duplication." An administrative agency, the CIC does not seek to usurp power, for the member schools remain autonomous: a majority cannot dictate to any one university, and all projects are voluntary...
...highest bidder, Coffman has refused to identify publicly his financial backers. One reason may be that Coffman's backers include Harvard alumni who want to avoid being publicly identified as bidding against the University...
...biggest drops were in the weather-sensitive construction, farming and durable-goods industries. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, echoing a familiar New Frontier theme, blamed the trouble on something more basic. "Our economy today is simply not expanding fast enough," he said. "It must do so if we are to avoid an economic downturn...
...policy statement, the Family Committee on Athletic Sports maintained that Western hockey encouraged precisely those circumstances that the Ivy League colleges...banded together to avoid." The Committee's condemnations of the West went on to conclude that the NCAA tournament in question has no virtue as a natural climax or goal for the Ivy League...