Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DESPITE THE LURE of possible British recognition for Zimbabwe, Bishop Muzorewa may have some good reasons for trying to delay or avoid a constitutional settlement. It seems highly unlikely that the London conference could end successfully without acceptance of British proposals for new elections: and yet elections are about the last thing Muzorewa wants to face right now. The electorate, both white and black, is dissatisfied with his failure to bring a speedy end to the war with patriotic Front forces. Since he took office on June 1, more than 2,000 people have been killed fighting. Hundreds more have...
...actions and was dismayed at the ineptitude of Carter's advisers. Last week the warfare broke into the open in news stories relating the wishful hopes of a few Mondale supporters that Carter, rather than Mondale, might be dumped as the Democrats seek a compromise presidential candidate to avoid a fight between Carter and Ted Kennedy...
...tactless, the secret dream of every European was, one, to avoid a nuclear war but, secondly, if there had to be a nuclear war, to have it conducted over their heads by the strategic forces of the United States and the Soviet Union...
...Pinellas County, whites were reassured by a rule that no school could become more than 30% black. In fact, busing has served as an incentive for neighborhood integration in St. Petersburg; white children who live near blacks can avoid busing, since they are needed to desegregate nearby schools. Busing also helped block the predicted pattern of swift racial turnover once a few blacks had moved into a neighborhood, since the plan guarantees that no school will become all black. Says a local real estate agent: "When busing was new, people were afraid of something they just didn't know...
Stobaugh, Yergin and their Project colleagues avoid this trap. They rule out natural gas as a solution, arguing that the deregulation of interstate prices will not make substantial additions to U.S. gas reserves. Coal's contribution in the short term is uncertain because uncertain demand for the fuel by electrical utilities has made the railroads, coal's key transportation link, hesitant to upgrade their service. Moreover, opposition to the environmental hazards of coal usage (which include black lung disease, the scarring of the land by strip mining, and air, water and thermal pollution) cause the Project to condemn coal...