Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone's saying, "I would like to hear what the Dean thinks about this proposal." Ford believes any outspokeness distorts votes. "Some people who disagree with a plan will think that I have gone so far out on a limb that they had better vote with me to avoid my embarrassment, while others react to what may look like a Dean's attempt to make the Faculty's decision for it and oppose the matter...
...switched to anthropology, wants to teach it because it blends his desire to be scientifically precise and his interest in people. He has pushed his grades up to a 3.8 average in his major, has a four-year graduate fellowship at the University of New Mexico. He hopes to avoid military service as a conscientious objector...
...Middle Ages, women who wanted a boy baby were advised to avoid copulation during the dark of the moon and (while an abbot prayed) to drink wine, mixed by an alchemist, with lion's blood. As often as not, they gave birth to girls. And despite scientists' growing understanding of genetics, modern parents are unable to do any better in choosing the sex of their offspring. But help may be on the way. Two English scientists have devised a technique for controlling the sex of rabbits. Their method, the first to achieve 100% accuracy with any mammal...
...election, Viet Nam might have become a dead issue, long overshadowed by Great Society triumphs. (Of course it might also have become a very live issue, had it been followed by other conflicts in Asia.) Instead, banking on his mandate, Johnson chose escalation, convinced that he could avoid a big land war by using "cheap" airpower to bomb the North. But the result, Wicker argues, was that Johnson simply created in the South big airbases that invited guerrilla attack and required all the more U.S. troops for their protection. Not only did the Northern bombing prove relatively ineffective against...
...marching Poor People have tried to avoid this obstacle by limiting their guaranteed-income proposal to those too young, too old, or too infirm to work. But this doesn't strike at the real problem: the shortage of jobs in America for unskilled or low-skilled workers. When there are jobs, they are usually deficient in either money income or psychic income. Welfare programs and retraining are inadequate, and there is a serious question whether they could ever eliminate poverty...