Word: shun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts to a ritual vow to uphold free trade and shun any turn toward protectionism. Those vows are never perfectly kept; every country has in fact taken protectionist action. But barriers to trade would probably have been raised much higher had it not been for the leaders' repeated public commitments...
...THURSDAY April 4. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson drew 5000 Harvard students and others to the Yard, exhorting them to choose the moral high road on the issue of apartheid, to shun rationalization and let their emotions dictate the terms for dealing with South Africa's parish regime. The reverend is famous for his disdain for those who use immoral means to attain their ends; he blasted President Bok for his paternalistic and tokenistic approach to aiding the oppresed Black South Africans, opting instead for what he calls the moral purity of complete divestment...
...personality appears out of synch with the intensely public demands of his office, the head of the richest and most famous university in the United States. Despite his predilection to shun the spotlight, Bok's presidential tasks continually bring him into the public eye: from ensuring the quality of the Faculty, to serving as a spokesman for all of higher education, to indefatigibly hitting the road in search of the donations upon which Harvard survives...
DIED. Hobart Freeman, 64, reclusive founder of a controversial eleven-year-old faith-healing sect, the Faith Assembly, whose 2,000 members are taught to shun medicine on the grounds that it is linked to witchcraft and that doctors are little better than magicians; of heart disease, pneumonia and gangrene; in Shoe Lake, Ind. Freeman, a former Baptist Bible scholar who told his followers that he would not die because prayer had enabled him to survive several heart attacks and an auto accident, was indicted last October in the death of a 15-year-old disciple from chronic kidney disease...
John Paul insists that Catholics must shun contraception...