Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grew. One contractor said he had been asked to pay $2,500 to get a city council zoning change. Another bragged that he had paid out $75,000 in payola to city officials to get contracts for the Frankford Elevated. Coin laundry operators said they paid $4,000 to avoid new laundry regulations. Dilworth tearfully-and. so far. successfully-argued against a grand jury investigation...
...reporters. The chain has not one headquarters but three: in Washington. New York and Cincinnati. It speaks with a single voice from Washington on national and international matters, but encourages diversity on the local level. And while the typical newspaper chain strives to establish monopolies, Scripps-Howard tries to avoid them. In Memphis, the only city where a Scripps-Howard monopoly exists, the Commercial Appeal and the Press-Scimitar have quarreled hotly for 25 years-with full management approval...
Wives who loathe the hostess, love the host, clearly cannot kiss only the latter. (Best choice: kiss both.) Professionally, what about the boss's wife? (Let her kiss first.) Physically, how to avoid the host determined to bestow a really really warm welcome? (Embrace his wife until spontaneity ebbs.) Does a kiss upon entrance demand a similar display on the way out? (Only if the host blocks the only exit...
...report-expected to be approved by the church assembly and Parliament within a year-recommends that an alternative burial service be read over all suicides, to avoid subjective judgment on whether or not they were sinful. Two key phrases would be left out of the suicide burial service. One is, "forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed." The other is, "in sure and certain hope of resurrection" -on grounds that a suicide is by definition incapable of earthly repentance...
...Stanford Accelerator will avoid this problem by building a straight line course two miles long, along down which the electrons will travel. The major problem here will be to construct a level track for such a great distance. If accomplished, it will be an engineering feat without parallel. The Stanford machine will be considerably more powerful than the C.E.A.: it is designed to operate at 25 Bev, and eventually reach as much as 45 Bev. But, it will concentrate on the same problems the C.E.A. is currently attacking