Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers who turn next to Robb K. Burlage 3G's "The New South: Rose Water, Veneer, and Progress," should carefully avoid being deterred by the first two pages. Mr. Burlage's opening rhetoric ("Dixie is booming and yet...Dixie is booming, and yet...") seems more suited to a political campaign than to an intellectual magazine. The rest of the article nevertheless contains a highly factual analysis of Southern industry-chasing programs, points out several uncomfortable dilemmas these policies have created...
...will drop steadily. At last it will drift slowly near the earth, and the pilot, flying it like an old-fashioned glider, will be able to select a favorable spot on which to land. If he fires his retrorocket at roughly the right time, he may be able to avoid such inhospitable areas as the broad Pacific or the cold wastes of Antarctica...
This formation puts a premium on energy. The defenders must move quickly to avoid being overshifted by a quick-passing attack. The guards also have to drop back to defend against a pivot man, since the middle man in the back of the zone plays closer to the basket than the foul line...
Black-White Fallacy. The obvious need in areas with compulsory courses is for texts that avoid the black-white fallacy. An example of the scholar's dilemma is Florida, where the legislature has ordered high schools to offer 30 hours of "Americanism v. Communism" (in practice, cutting six weeks out of American history courses), with emphasis on "the evils, fallacies and false doctrines of Communism...
...move that cut Romney off from a tidy windfall. To avoid conflict-of-interest charges, the new Michigan Governor formally resigned all connection with AMC last Nov. 15, nine days after the election. Had he stayed with the company nine days more he could have taken up options on 13,494 shares of American Motors at $9.91 a share. This would have enabled him to buy for $134,000 stock that last week was worth twice that much...