Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mike Bassett was comfortingly at case with the first unit. If he can avoid the injury jinx that struck down the last two senior quarterbacks on Crimson teams, Harvard will enjoy highly competent, efficient field direction throughout the season...
...high mortality rate is not necessary for natural selection to operate. The great danger to man is not the suppression of natural selection but what is called the population explosion. Man must regulate his behavior for the benefit of future generations. If he will not take measures to avoid the coming population crisis, he hardly needs to bother about genetics...
Good Start. Partly to avoid '64 production bugs, and partly because the '63 sales were slow anyhow, Egbert halted Studebaker's production lines for retooling in June-one month earlier than usual. Says Egbert: "A year ago at this time we had zero cars, but so far this model year we've shipped 7,200 to our dealers." Egbert, who is an enthusiastic amateur flyer, is also winging around the U.S. to pep up Studebaker dealers and keep more of them from switching to competitors. With only 2,000 dealers-v. General Motors...
...have our money in is turning out dollars for us every 18 or 20 days"-which is the time it takes for Winn-Dixie's inventory to turn over (about 25% faster than the average for supermarkets). With $66 million in working capital on hand, the brothers avoid seasonal borrowing and have paid cash for most of the 13 other grocery chains that they have acquired...
...fairly good rule of thumb to avoid books that come in cardboard slipcases, just as a practiced reader automatically avoids the memoirs of actresses, novels described by their publishers as heartwarming, and books given prepublication endorsements by Clifton Fadiman. The rule is not absolute, but more often than not the contents of a slipcase either have calcified into the classic condition or are so fragile that they need an especially strong container to keep them from crumbling. Most of Janet Frame's stories, sketches and fables in these two prettily boxed booklets fit the second case...