Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airspace, and a total of 438 (most of them involving small planes) during the past quarter century. The collision danger increases steadily as more and more planes take to the air, and as air speeds increase. The faster planes are traveling, the less time pilots have to avoid a threatened collision. Once two high-speed jets on a collision course get within a mile of each other, a crash is inevitable: at 600 m.p.h. they will close the one-mile gap in three seconds...
...during the Depression, has been with it ever since. The change, Du Pont executives say, was long scheduled, but hinged on the retirement of Walter S. Carpenter Jr., 74, who wanted to stay on as chairman until the completion of Du Font's long and vain battle to avoid selling its General Motors stock under a U.S. antitrust action. With Carpenter's retirement, the company loses the only man outside the Du Pont family ever to have served as a Du Pont president...
...timers who collect an estimated $100 million a year from among the more than 10 million true believers (80% of them female). Nearly 1,000 U.S. newspapers, with a daily circulation of some 40 million, carry astrological columns with such thumbnail profundities as: "Leo (July 22 to August 21) : Avoid investing unwisely or trying to outdo the experts when you have not had sufficient practice or knowledge. Listen intently instead. Stand up under pressure admirably...
Whether the American woman was seeking motherhood or trying to avoid it, she was subjected last week to nerve-racking reports about drugs she might be taking...
...CONTRACEPTION. The million or so women who have been using the new pills to avoid conception were victims of frightening reports from Britain and Norway. Several women in the U.S. and Britain have suffered from thrombophlebitis while taking norethynodrel,*and a few have died, said the British Medical Journal. In Norway, health authorities read the British report and hastily yanked the drug off the market...