Word: avoiding
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...thin line between the savers, like Mills, and the spenders, who want to devote more resources to social programs. Above all, he fears that excessive stringency would "overkill" the economy and cause a recession like the three that occurred during the Eisenhower years. The President also wants to avoid precipitous major slashes in federal spending. These would hike the unemployment rate and put an increased number of Negroes-always the last to be hired and the first to be fired-out of work. He is unwilling to curb inflation at the price of social upheaval. Increasingly, Nixon's opportunity...
...with applicants, including 856 graduating law students, or about 5% of the total number finishing law school this spring. Despite all the major objections to U.S. policy in Viet Nam, applications to the Foreign Service continue to rise and those to the Peace Corps remain steady. A desire to avoid the draft figures in the decision of many students to go into teaching; the New York City school system received 17,199 more applications last year than the year before. Nevertheless, many putative draft dodgers find a true vocation in helping slum children learn...
...anger, specifics are most important. Parents should avoid sweeping, satiric barbs like "With that handwriting you won't even be able to cash unemployment checks." Ginott advises them to express their "anger without insult," and describe the offense candidly and explicitly: "When I see cards, soda bottles and potato chips scattered all over the floor, it makes me feel unpleasant. It actually makes me angry." When the point is made clearly enough, most children will calmly decide to repair the damage without hurt feelings. "Our anger has a purpose: it shows our concern," Ginott writes. "Failure to get angry...
Watson would not say how many freshmen had applied to each of the Houses. "That is strictly confidential information," he said. "We are trying to avoid this sense of 'popular' and 'unpopular' Houses...
Under the distribution system, each group of freshmen can say which Houses it wants to enter and which ones it wants to avoid. The House Masters then get lists of the groups applying to their Houses, and the Masters tell Watson which students they want most...