Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...avoid this difficulty would be to make the outside-course component in the Honors ratio optional. It would be included in computing departmental Cum and Magna degrees unless detrimental to the student's Honors standing. This does not mean a student could pick and choose which outside grades would be used in this component of the ratio and which would not. Outside grades would be considered as a group: they would either be counted or discarded together...
Although the scandal of the book's title has generally been taken to refer to Honora's flight from the Internal Revenue Service (never having paid her income tax, she sails to Europe to avoid arrest), it might just as well be that of Emile and Melissa; of Moses, who takes, with suicidal singlemindedness, to drink; or of Coverley and Betsey, his lonely wife, who exposes them to ridicule among their neighbors at a certain missile site. All the Wapshots are involved in scandals of one sort or another, and Cheever seems to be saying that the fault...
However, to avoid any malpractice suits, one very successful abortionist in New York City makes all his customers sign affidavits which say, "--------pierced my ears with sterile instruments, and if they should become infected, I promise...
...Their Own Good. Hatchery-innocent rainbow troutlets, less than an inch long, were plopped into the classroom. With the current turned off, they swam about at random, brushing the wires and the tin fish. But when Kanayama switched on the current, they darted all over the tank, desperate to avoid the harmless but painful shock. "I never felt guilty for doing this," says Kanayama fondly. "It was all for their own good...
...Mutual concern for backsliders has tempered ecclesiastical competition somewhat. Undermanned Catholic dioceses in the Southwest no longer complain when Protestant missions minister to Mexican-Americans who may be Catholic by birth and baptism but not by any demonstrated devotions. Many local councils of churches are now planning carefully to avoid the organization of new Protestant congregations in small communities that can barely support the ones they already have...