Word: sidestepped
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...prime target for takeover. When Manhattan-based Loew's Theaters Inc. undertook to win control of the company with a tender offer to shareholders last month, Commercial Credit's board decided that it would much prefer a partner of its own choosing. Last week it moved to sidestep Loew's by agreeing to merge with Minneapolis' computer-making Control Data Corp...
...first knew which island the Ceylonese were laying claim to; after all, there is little on Kachcha Tivu but cacti. Indira Gandhi, deeply involved in such major problems as a stagnant economy, overpopulation, food shortages and the disintegration of her own Congress Party, would dearly have loved to sidestep the entire issue. In today's India, however, the absurd and obscure seem frequently to become major affairs of state. Once they got a fix on the island, the opposition parties, led by the nationalist Jana Sangh, demanded that Indira send troops and warships to hold all 160 acres...
...your article "How Secret the Confessional?" [Dec. 22], you seem to sidestep the problem of individual responsibility, which is the true issue. You say that clerics defend the inviolability of confession because it provides "an emotional outlet for disturbed persons." Murder also provides such an outlet. Do the clerics who defend confession-Catholic and Protestant-truly believe that non-Catholics are more emotionally disturbed for not having the confessional? We can hope not. You quote a pastor as saying that we should be thankful "that we still have one place left in the world where a man can speak freely...
Wary of Yogurt. Through some deft last-minute maneuvers, Archbishop Makarios, the island's bearded President, managed to sidestep some of the immediate consequences of the settlement. Under the agreement, the Turks and Greeks called on him to disband his 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard and to grant wide police powers to the 4,000 U.N. peace-keeping troops stationed on Cyprus. Fearing an encroachment on Cyprus' sovereignty, Makarios replied that he wanted the Security Council to endorse the truce package before he finally acted. That could mean never-since France and the Soviet Union oppose...
...Ph.D. at Harvard in the humanities or the social sciences takes, on the average, seven and a half years. Many students would like to get the degree more quickly, but there are too many obstacles to sidestep. Some students teach more than they would like to because they need the money. Others cannot refuse a thesis advisor who asks his graduate student to spend "just one more year" as his teaching assistant. And everyone spends a great deal of time working and re-working his thesis because, as Dean Ford suggested, "perhaps we place too much emphasis on the thesis...