Word: sidestepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only a mixed blessing for Greene's characters, who in his new novel go through more than the usual torments that may or may not be signs of God's devastating love. But what an indulgence for the reader. Temporarily, at least, everybody can sidestep this fall's avalanche of novels-many of them apparently the work of rude boys rubbing sticks together to make fire-and enjoy a Promethean storyteller at work...
Moreover, the bill contains an escalator that would raise these targets as the cost of farming increases. The bill limits subsidy payments to a single farmer to $20,000 per crop. In the Senate version, big farmers could sidestep the law by temporarily parceling some of their land out to relatives and collecting the maximum subsidy four or five times on the same crop. Though the White House has threatened to veto the measure unless subdivisions are specifically barred and the escalator clause scrapped, there is no chance now to eliminate farm subsidies entirely...
Scali managed to sidestep a veto. The Security Council voted 11-0, with the U.S. and three other nations abstaining, to adopt a resolution that condemned Israel's raids on Lebanon and also deplored "all recent acts of violence"-a phrase that could be interpreted to include Arab terrorism. The compromise did not please the Arabs. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed el-Zayyat declared that "if the situation in the Middle East defies any solution today it is because of United States support for Israel...
...find guys in Union College windbreakers, computer programmers, community college girls, and, being that it's New York, high school seniors. It's a bar whose juke box is evenly split between Chicago and Grand Funk. (Once, one Friday night, after I learned that the way to sidestep the dollar bottled beers is to be drunk before you leave the house, I waded through Squire's to the juke box, and in a real fit of ill-will, viciously punched Van Morrison's Wild Night. When it came on, there was silence...
Mayor John Lindsay has managed to sidestep direct blame for not responding quickly to widespread police corruption in New York City. But last week he was bloodied politically when one of his aides appeared to be covering up for him before the Knapp Commission, which has been investigating police conduct...