Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...H.A.A. will open its Quincy Street doors at 8:30 a.m. this year, rather than at 9 a.m., in order to avoid penalizing students with 9 o'clock classes...
Individuals and roommates will move on the one number they draw. The new plan, delegates agreed, would avoid previous large scale cashing-in on one student's low number which occurred when groups were allowed to form after drawing of room lots...
...newest task Johnson had set himself a commendable set of rules: don't spend time looking for headlines, try to avoid politics, avoid second-guessing war strategy, be constructive and impartial. As a starter, the seven-man Johnson subcommittee planned to survey Alaskan defenses, examine weapons and manpower needs and investigate foreign monopolies of strategic U.S. defense materials...
...week removed the ceiling from prices it will pay domestic producers of some strategic materials. Previously, it would pay U.S. suppliers no more than 25% higher prices than those paid to foreign producers. The board will take off price restrictions on a few badly needed materials, will try to avoid a blanket increase. With the new high prices, the board hopes to persuade U.S. miners to develop low-grade deposits of such metals as manganese, copper and zinc, thus speed up its lagging stockpiling program...
...help Peg and other new teachers who can't avoid feeling a little lost, the council had examined what was being done about just such problems in some 30 U.S. communities. The result: a list of tested practices that have kept many potentially first-rate teachers from being scared out of their jobs before they had a chance to prove themselves...