Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorely needed, but is being blocked by a minority which doesn't oppose the basic concept, but would like to be included. Medicare is being blocked by a doctors' lobby. Where are the forces that speak for the public? Why should it be "safer" for a Congressman to avoid the anger of organized medicine than to flout the wishes of the overwhelming majority? Simply because no one organizes, agitates, and pressures for the majority...
Eventually automation, like previous technological upheavals, should lead to new industrial expansion. But only if the Government acts to speed and case the process can this country hope to avoid the protracted dislocation and human suffering that characterized the historical analogues of automation...
...fans in New York are concerned, Valenti might just as well have been out of town for the past ten years; even though he lives in the city, constantly makes records (53 albums since 1951), teaches at Juilliard, he gives recitals almost everywhere but home. "I'd rather avoid the rat race in New York," he says. In 1960, his records were withdrawn. Then last November, Valenti played to a packed house at Carnegie Recital Hall, and three of his albums were promptly reissued. Two weeks ago, he played there again, and now Westminster Records is ready to restore...
...caution hung over the steel centers like smog. No one could be quite sure how much of the fresh demand was business hedging against the possibility of a strike when labor contracts reopen after April 30. Government steel analysts feel that this fall steel should be able to avoid another tumble like last year's, and hope to see steel production rise 3% to about 101 million tons in 1963. Other economists are not so sure. Says George Cloos, senior economist of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank: "Strike or no, there will be a drop in steel production...
...official components of the House: library, dining hall, kitchen, House offices, superintendent's office, common rooms; as well as a number of small student suites and an entrance hall, known, grandly, as the Gold Room. C-entry makes Adams House respectable; most people, Master Brower among them, avoid...