Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than a claim that middle-class outside-agitators have been making trouble by stirring up the normally docile black folk in the ghettos--contains the seeds of an intellectually serviceable ideology of repression. It is but a short step from Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding to the proposition that government should avoid doing anything that might raise expectations, among the poor, while doing as much as possible to repress violence. After all, would not such a policy best serve the immediate need for community and security of the large majority of Americans...
...food and water, and sound public health policies with many physicians, nurses, hospitals, and clinics. Following the slaughter of 40,000 Ibos in 1966, about two million Ibos and other minority groups left their positions throughout Nigeria and fled to Biafra. Additional refugees continue to pour into Biafra to avoid capture by the Nigerian troops who have gained a reputation for slaughtering whole villages...
...Nonetheless, his examiner (Elaine Shore), a squat female sergeant of stony mien and rigid devotion to the Army manual, proceeds with the examination. In a sequence of mounting hilarity, the thoroughly discomfited Coco is forced to strip down. The apex of comic modesty is reached when Coco tries to avoid total exposure by draping himself in the American flag...
...continued buoyancy of the economy, Nixon will have to extend the 10% surcharge well beyond its scheduled June 30 expiration date and resist various pressures for costly new Government spending programs, even when the Viet Nam war finally ends. For its part, the Federal Reserve will have to avoid the stop-and-go policies that in the past have produced sharp, erratic swings in the money supply and have brought criticism from some economists. The need is to show, as George W. Mitchell, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, puts it, that "we mean business in breaking...
...overcharges on the drug, which has been sold since 1953. Sales amounted to well over $100 million annually. The Justice Department charged that the capsules cost an average 1.60 to produce, but sold for as much as 510. Whatever the merits of the damage claims, the companies wanted to avoid long and costly court fights, and so proposed the settlement...