Word: avoiding
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...plot is typical Gilbert and Sullivan--complex, nonsensical, and irrelevant. The princess of the title flees her palace to avoid marrying a prince pre-chosen for her. She establishes a school for young ladies, dedicated to the disliking of men. The school is literally shut away from male society by a wall that encloses the grounds. But the royal fiance, in search of his princess, manages to enter the school--disguised as a girl. The women's academy setting loosely ties the production into the Radcliffe centennial, reportedly one of G & S's reasons for mounting the show this year...
...equal expenditure per capita test is a measure to insure equal opportunity, because other tests listed in the 1975 legislation proved ineffective, and provided ways for colleges to avoid that objective...
Most Boston University (B.U.) students returned to classes yesterday after a nine-day faculty strike, but many professors moved their classes outdoors or off campus to avoid crossing picket lines of still-striking clerical workers and librarians...
...from the southwest; they discovered a capital bereft of both defending troops and most of its civilian inhabitants. The Libyans, who two weeks ago had pushed the Tanzanians and Ugandan exiles out of Kampala's suburbs with a sharp counterattack, had already moved out of the city to avoid entrapment. One of the first landmarks to fall was the notorious Makindye military police headquarters, where thousands had been tortured and killed by Amin's secret police, the State Research Bureau. Soon afterward, Entebbe Airport was in Tanzanian hands, along with one of Amin's ornate state residences...
After the deadline passed, the Teamsters called selective strikes against 73 of the 500 companies involved in the negotiations. This was a union effort to flex some muscle but avoid provoking the White House into imposing the 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To invoke the law, which would require the drivers to return to work, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety. The partial walkout also would have enabled the union to push for divide-and-conquer settlements with individual firms. To foil that move, trucking...