Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Cracks down on bombing terrorists by making it a federal crime to escape across state lines (or from the U.S.) to avoid prosecution or testifying in cases of burning or bombing of any building or vehicle. Also a federal crime: transporting explosives across state lines for the purpose of damaging property, or making bombing threats by mail, telephone or telegraph...
France has promised his country independence by 1961, and Daddah is ready for it. "As long as we have life and strength, we shall avoid the mistakes, the fanaticism and the demagoguery which seem to be the lot of newly independent countries," he insists. And by 196.3, with MIFERMA shipping out iron ore at the rate of 6,000,000 tons a year, Mauritania will be in business...
Nossal's uncritical reporting from Red China can be explained partly in terms of Red China's low tolerance for any other kind, partly because he went to Peking under orders from the Globe to stick to features and to avoid antagonizing his hosts. In any event, it hardly seems worth the expense...
...built BBDO from a smalltime outfit postwar into fourth place in the industry before he was forced to retire from active leadership after a stroke. No sooner had Brower taken over than he faced a passel of trouble. Revlon, Inc. pulled out its $7,000,000 account. Then, to avoid trouble with its $17 million American Tobacco account, BBDO resigned its $1,500,000 account with Reader's Digest, after an unfavorable cigarette article appeared. "Being an intellectual uninterested in money," quips Brower, "I resigned the one that billed the least...
People smoke, they say, to convince themselves that they are mature and sophisticated, to avoid or lessen tensions, to aid social poise, or just to have something to do with their hands. Young people smoke cigarettes to appear older, older people to appear younger...