Word: avoiding
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...Stealth bomber, recently unveiled to the public, has long been popular in the American mind--witness commercials comparing Japanese cars to the sleek plane. This has created a difficult dilemma for President-elect George Bush. Because of its ability to avoid Soviet radar detection in flight, the Stealth is highly attractive to both the public and the defense establishment. But in view of the $500 million-a-piece price tag, Bush must decide whether we can really afford building these expensive new machines...
Cable at Harvard, if it ever occurs, will not just be another excuse to avoid studying. According to Continental Cable, there are many possibilities with closed circuit, rang- ing from link-ups with MIT to satellitecoverage of events in Washington to live coverageof visiting dignitaries speaking at the KennedySchool of Government. And Alfred Pandiscio,associate director of telecommunicationsengineering services at Harvard says there is thepossibility that Harvard itself will be able tooriginate programs of its own. Perhaps one dayHarvard audiences will be able to watch housedrama productions, improvisational comedy shows,or the Crimson nightly news on T.V. without everleaving their...
...Grinch Army Faction can't persuade holiday shoppers to forego present buying, it aims at least to convince parents that they should avoid buying war toys for their children, Fucella said. Shoppers may think twice before buying toy guns and other weaponsfor children after watching the fake battles intoy stores that the group plans to stage, headded...
...corporations are almost all white, male, conservative and Republican. Most of the corporations are members of the Fortune 500, and many invest in banking, nuclear power, defense or energy industries. Bagdikian writes that it is "normal for all large businesses to make serious efforts to influence the news, to avoid embarassing publicity and to maximize sympathetic public opinion and governmental policies. Now they own most of the news media that they wish to influence...
...need money, technology, investment. We tried nationalization in the 1970s, but that led to tremendous polarization in society. We want to avoid that...