Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adviser 'backgrounded' reporters on the news that the U.S. had asked the Soviet Union to leave crucial East-West issues alone while the new Administration re-examined policy, or expect the toughest possible response to crisis. (To such nonsense, Moscow backgrounded a predictable answer: the U.S. must avoid being provocative.) Yet the beginning of one new important policy was taking shape. Well aware that the nation's old allies in Europe have taken little pleasure in the new U.S. attention promised to Africa and South America, the President stated warm, reassuring support for NATO, promised solidly...
...recent issue of Soviet Weekly, Academician Mikhail Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, berated Soviet schools and universities for not producing more and better trained scientists. Much of the trouble, he said, comes from the "divorce" between research institutes and universities. The best scientists avoid becoming university professors because they fear being loaded with so much teaching that they can do little or no research. They prefer the institutes, which do research only. Attempts by education authorities to make the institutes into centers of scientific education have come to little. The institute directors will not cooperate because...
...committee of about a dozen alumni have devoted themselves to the not altogther comfortable task of selecting an "outstanding contribution to Harvard's undergraduate publications." "Our intention," said one of the group recently, "is to pick some piece each year that is most worthy of recognition--we try to avoid talking about 'best pieces.' What we've established in effect is a collegiate Pulitzer Prize." Most of the committee's members were on the board of the 1943 Harvard Album--then the official title of the Harvard Yearbook. Since 1948, they have been legally constituted as the Dana Reed Prize...
...Miller been able to duck the rat race, succeed, and yet avoid warm milk diets? By following his own advice--he never even entered...
Cronin emphasized that zoning has perpetuated the park land and that the University, legally exempt from zoning, needs no special consideration. By not changing the ordinances for the Hill area, the city might avoid illegality, trial in court, and the lowering of property values, he observed...