Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keeping two or three registers open at all times, Christy's manager says he hopes to avoid the long lines which frequently plague Store 24. "We try to offer premium products at a good value and give good service," says Mark Eichenbaum, manager of the Harvard Square Christy...
Citing statistics that indicate 31 of the 50 states have been in a recession during the so-called "Reagan recovery," Dukakis said that attempts to decrease federal involvement in state affairs and increase local policy-making would allow the government to avoid creating a "national response to what are national problems...
...best way to avoid nuclear war in the long term is to spend all of our efforts, time and ability to try and work out a Strategic Defense Initiative," Weinberger said...
Rules are rules, said City Manager Bob Acker; only the city council had the authority to waive the fee. Nationwide publicity helped persuade the council last week to forgive the bill and avoid adding insult to Pallamary's injury. Pallamary called the action "very kind, but symbolic." He still faces several thousand dollars in hospital bills...
...delay -- intentional or not -- looked remarkably like a custom-made face-saving device. It will allow the President to avoid violating the SALT II ceilings without requiring him to repudiate his earlier vow to forge ahead with missile deployment. The delay, unconfirmed by the White House, might not be a gambit at all. But news of the delay spilled to the public at a time when the superpowers seemed to have reached an impasse in pre-summit talks. The U.S. wants to discuss "regional issues," like Soviet policy toward Afghanistan, Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East...