Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...public acts as they affect the whole community the Catholic is bound in conscience to promote the common good and to avoid any seeking of a merely sectarian advantage. He is bound also to recognize the proper scope or independence of the political order...
...dust so that we should act as a lightning conductor-as decoy duck-to draw enemy fire on our heads to divert it from New York and Chicago." In some replies to Gaitskellites, "NATO" was spat out like a dirty word. Fiery Michael Foot demanded that imperial Britain, to avoid obliteration, should become a neutralist country "like India, Indonesia, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Ghana...
...denied befriending Liu as a refugee-denied knowing that Liu was a Communist agent. The real issue, said Lei, was whether the government could get away with such a "smear" of honest critics. "All we wished to do is urge the government to implement peaceful reform in order to avoid bloodshed. If the charges against me can be substantiated, I need not mourn my personal fate. But I must mourn the future of my country...
...built-in scope made the new development bank the natural organization to handle the Eisenhower plan for singlehanded, soft-loan social development of Latin America by the U.S. The hope is that inter-American administration can help avoid the kind of situation that currently exists in Peru, where U.S. aid for housing and land reform is being blocked by opposition politicians. The $500 million that the U.S. has promised for the plan will be administered separately from the bank's other activities-as will other future U.S. contributions, expected to total billions before the building job is finished...
...avoid conflicts, more and more companies are setting up rigid policing practices instead of relying on their employees' honor. North American Aviation, Convair and Douglas Aircraft all have strict written rules requiring executives to report the slightest outside involvement. Litton Industries requires its key executives to report their outside interests in writing yearly. Since the Chrysler furor broke, hundreds of companies have sent probing questionnaires to executives . and directors, are quietly investigating their purchasing and marketing practices. One Chicago businessman has private detectives make periodic checks on some 200 executives: "If I hear of one driving a Cadillac...