Word: circumventions
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While White and Cotton tried desperately to move the gear by whipping the plane's nose up and down, ground engineers pored over charts in order to pinpoint the exact cause of the trouble. They concluded that a short circuit had snarled the computer, which was programmed to allow...
Establishing a program of "academic semesters off" would circumvent the draft. It would let students with unsatisfactory records avoid immediate service and let others try jobs and projects which would otherwise be closed to them until after they had fulfilled their obligation. But it would not relieve any student of...
Seymour Melman, industrial engineering professor at Columbia, has proposed that teachers give A's to all their students to avoid such choices. His Columbia colleague, Henry Linford, chemical engineering professor, retorted that "You can't botch up our educational system just to circumvent a Government order," and Dean...
Firm Hand. The Dred Scott decision alone made Taney extremely unpopular in the North, but public ire reached a crescendo after Fort Sumter, when he steadfastly opposed the war-harassed Lincoln Administration as it tried to circumvent constitutional safeguards for the sake of wartime efficiency.
The pact is hard to enforce if anyone really wants to circumvent it; Boden-hausen's organization has no legal weapons against transgressors, simply passes along complaints to governments involved. Any member of the pact can unilaterally exempt specific products from patent protection; Italy has done so with Pharmaceuticals...