Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no question the [measure] will not serve to avoid the need for new revenue. There is still need for a tax package," Bulger said...
Locke offered a Republican amendment he said would expand the cuts and spending reductions by $258 million more to avoid taxes...
...efforts to unearth graft related to defense contracts. Soon after, Singh launched a dogged national crusade against corruption. For the elections, he persuaded several of India's opposition groups to quit fighting one another and work together to defeat Congress. As a result, they were able to avoid facing each other and thus splitting the opposition vote in 387 of the 525 parliamentary contests last month...
...real one. Such a game would probably not have been played in the depths of the cold war, but if it had, there would probably have been considerably more saber rattling, perhaps even nuclear warnings. In the Gorbachev era, both sides go out of their way to avoid escalation. The Soviets cancel strategic exercises because they might be misunderstood. In the investigation of the poison-gas attack in Washington, Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, who plays a national security adviser to the Kremlin, orders the KGB to work directly with...
There are also hints of potential rifts within the Civic Forum. Until now, the organization has striven to encourage consensus and avoid partisan affiliation. "The Civic Forum's purpose," says Havel, "is to be a bridge between the totalitarian system and true pluralistic democracy." But popular heroes are already emerging. One is Valtr Komarek, 59, director of the official Institute of Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. An academic with a magnetic speaking style, Komarek seized the nation's imagination last weekend with a nine-minute televised address that detailed Communist incompetence in economic management. By the Monday strike...