Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Without a pact, Ottawa fears, the U.S. Congress will indiscriminately freeze more Canadian goods out of U.S. markets. In the past year, Canada has been bruised in fights over exports to the U.S. of softwood lumber used in housing and other timber products; it is now under pressure to avoid enlarging its nearly 3% share of the $32 billion American steel market. For its part, the Administration sees a deal with Canada as leverage that could be used at the new round of worldwide free-trade talks currently under way in Geneva...
...nation feels that its command structure is vulnerable, it is more likely to get an itchy finger on its button. One way to prevent this is to establish crisis-control centers to prevent misunderstandings. Another is for the U.S. to make its C 3 system more survivable -- and to avoid causing the Soviet command to feel vulnerable -- so that there would be less pressure on either side to launch a pre-emptive strike and less chance that a confrontation could get beyond the President's control...
...week, with hundreds of miles between venues, "you usually have time to take a shower or eat, not both." Apart from the show, the big event most days is the one-hour lunch stop. The cast favors shopping malls and K marts for the chance to spread out and avoid familiar faces. Once or twice a month there are "golden days," when the company neither travels nor performs. "Golden days," says Kaye, "are when you do your laundry...
...This is not important. What I have to think is how to avoid any damage to Israel. I don't think about personalities...
...avoid an immediate crisis, Texaco's lawyers quickly sought relief in a federal court in White Plains, N.Y. The judge ruled in January 1986 that Texaco's bond must be reduced to a more reasonable $1 billion. That gave the company some breathing space to file appeals, and the scene of battle returned to Houston, where much of the public was rooting for the hometown company against New York-based Texaco. Pennzoil Attorney Joseph Jamail was already becoming a folk hero there for jousting with the giant firm...