Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grew so timid about flexing its muscles in the Third World that it lost the will and ability to defend "legitimate interests" there. As a result, when the Tehran mob broke traditional standards of international law and took the embassy occupants hostage, America felt powerless to respond. To avoid such embarassing nuisances in the future, the Pentagon's friends in Congress argue, the U.S. must develop a "quick-strike force" able to dump a motorized division anywhere in the Third World within 60 days. Congress approved such a force two years ago, but it took the Iran crisis to convince...
...year to 2%, while wages and benefits have risen from $5.38 to $16.53 for hourly workers, making the 455,000 U.S.W. members among the best-rewarded in the nation. The U.S. industry has paid a high price for its deal with the union five years ago to avoid strikes by submitting disagreements to arbitration...
...south of the border, but they are going like crazy up here." Around the town of Medicine Hat, where 1,700 oil and gas wells have been drilled in the past year, Canadian, British and West German tank troops on war games have to aim very, very carefully to avoid blowing up one of those pools of energy...
...reasonable recommendation, suggests Dr. Arthur Herbst, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago in an editorial accompanying the report, is for women with a history of miscarriage-or whose cervix has begun to dilate-to avoid intercourse and orgasm inthelast trimester...
...there are also solar panels to catch the sun's rays, and becomes gradually opaque on the northern exposure. The principal entry points are two half-buried tubes that would serve as the major cross streets. Travel inside the dome would be by electric cars or monorail-to avoid lethal accumulations of automobile exhaust. Still, Tigan admits the project's "human dimensions" must be explored. One member of the city council, which last month approved a request for $55,000 in federal money to make the feasibility study, wondered how residents would feel about no longer being able...