Word: avoiding
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...almost enough to take care of all the insolvent S and Ls. But other experts are not so optimistic. The FDIC's Seidman has told Congress the bailout figure could reach $50 billion, and some analysts put it as high as $100 billion. Few people believe the FSLIC can avoid going to the taxpayers for billions of dollars...
Want to see the big trees of Washington and Oregon, the great Douglas firs and red cedars? Stay in your car. Keep to the main roads. Avoid high, distant views. In the national forests here, the policy of the U.S. Forest Service has been to leave buffer zones of uncut trees along the tourist highways. It is prettier that way. It is also easier for the Forest Service, which has fewer letters of outrage to answer about the scarification that used to be a coastal rain forest...
...less than a year after the Tet offensive, Americans were shocked by the stories and televised images of an increasingly bloody and, to many, pointless war in Southeast Asia. In university dorms and dining halls around the country, students endlessly discussed their overarching obsession: the draft and how to avoid it. "The stress was ungodly, enormous," says Wheeler. "Viet Nam meant death." It was in this highly charged atmosphere that J. Danforth Quayle, DePauw University class of '69, enlisted in the National Guard...
...generally drafted at 19, but a prospect remained eligible for induction until 26. The law exempted men with medical problems, as well as conscientious objectors, ministers and some in essential occupations. A key provision provided deferment for students. Yet to the horror of college students who had hoped to avoid going to Viet Nam by earning advanced degrees, the revamped Military Selective Service Act of 1967 abolished deferments for graduate study. The maximum penalty for draft dodgers: five years in prison, plus a $10,000 fine...
...just before Quayle enlisted, the Army National Guard had a waiting list of 100,000. In 1970 National Guard Association President James Cantwell estimated that as many as 90% of all Guard members had joined to avoid the draft. When the draft was abolished in 1972, Guard membership began to drop off, falling from 411,000 in 1974 to an all-time low of 347,000 in 1979. The size of the Guard has climbed steadily in the 1980s, reaching 458,000 last year...