Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions which were raised at the conference are pitfalls which we have taken a great deal of care to avoid," he said...
...French can still take pride in the passion they have for their history. In Lyons, Jacques Tournier, the descendant of a water carrier who was guillotined in 1793, recalls that his grandmother refused to walk past the place in the market where the execution machine stood. "Now I too avoid that spot out of respect for my ancestors," Tournier says. Jacques Delmas, a lawyer from Reims, has fonder feelings for the revolution. "One of my ancestors stormed the Bastille," he says, "and I feel both thrilled and proud to be French whenever I walk past the place where it once...
...Government's objective in liquidating such real estate will be to get nearly full market value, not only to reduce the eventual cost of the S & L bailout to taxpayers but also to avoid undercutting the going rates in the marketplace. Yet the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, which currently holds most of the repossessed property and will be combined with the FDIC under the Bush plan, has seldom shown a talent for getting top dollar. In Guerneville, Calif., a small town north of San Francisco, the FSLIC took over a condominium project with more than 20 units...
...federal regulators liquidate everything from condominiums to gravel pits, they must move carefully to avoid triggering a plunge in property values. -- Despite a rising Dow, Wall Street faces more layoffs and falling profits. -- Control Data pulls out of the supercomputer market, leaving Cray Research as the sole U.S. firm to compete against rival Japanese manufacturers...
...there any way to avoid collisions with asteroids and comets? Perhaps. A nuclear warhead aimed right at a small asteroid could vaporize it, says Alan Harris, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But the warhead might also simply break the rock into pieces that would hit the earth anyway. A better plan, proposed by concerned scientists in the early 1980s, would be to use explosives to deflect an asteroid rather than destroy it. Properly positioned, a bomb could nudge a threatening object enough to make it miss the planet. The catch, says Harris, is that there...