Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning with Eisenhower, Presidents have tried to activate the office by adding responsibilities to involve their Vice Presidents in the decision-making processes. But quite often the responsibilities are simply chores that the President wishes to avoid. Nixon wants Agnew on the political line, giving them heil. He also wants Agnew to handle such ceremonial chores as Boy Scout awards, embassy breakfasts and Medal of Honor presentations...
Although individuals would no longer be responsible for negligence under this plan. Keeton said he feels this will not decrease the incentive to avoid accidents.In fact, the individual is not now personally responsible in most cases, he said, since more than 99 per cent of all compensation is paid by corporate insurance companies...
...some officials say there may have been another factor in the timing and exact wording of the statement: Harvard's desire to avoid any difficulties with Federal civil rights regulations...
During the debate a wedge of paratroopers and Marshals was forming. One of the SDS announcers asked that a military spokesman talk with one of the demonstration leaders in order to avoid further casualties. After several attempts, it became clear that the military was not going to negotiate. The wedge started moving through the center of the crowd, hacking its way through the demonstrators and splitting them in half. A girl was slapped on the side of the head with a rifle and all of a sudden coke bottles, beer cans, pieces of wood, and stones flew into the phalanx...
This is one reason why demonstrators should avoid initiating violence during the course of Saturday's march. Violence will not help efforts at organizing uncommitted demonstrators for further actions, but may give Nixon's policies the massive backing they have been unable to win on their own merits...