Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Behind the Senate's explanation that it wanted to avoid a battle with the State Board of Regents lay the obvious reason: Minnesota, was against other schools' playing in bowls, but was perfectly thrilled to be asked itself...
...avoid wasting time in the horrendous Lagos traffic-where auto trips are measured in the number of cigarettes consumed rather than in minutes-Sir Abubakar lives in a modern, two-story cement house near his office with his wife and nine children-plus the swarming families of his chauffeur and police orderly. In the Moslem tradition, his wife does not appear in public; for formal dinner parties, Abubakar borrows the Irish wife of a fellow minister to act as hostess. Up for prayers at 6:30, Abubakar breakfasts in time to arrive at his office precisely at 8:15, heads...
...local anesthetic is used, the vasa are tied off, and two stitches are taken to close the wound in the scrotum. The operation takes about ten minutes and requires only three days of convalescence. Indian surgeons tell patients to abstain from sexual relations for at least a month to avoid any chance of impregnating their wives with live sperm remaining in the tubes...
Damaged Image. By so pleading, the companies would be able to avoid frontpage trial publicity that might severely damage their long-nurtured images in the public eye. "Everyone who went out to buy a toaster," cracked a Government lawyer, "would think he was being overcharged." Furthermore, such a plea might discourage manufacturers who had purchased the price-fixed equipment from bringing civil suits to collect the triple damages allowed under the law. Reason: a nolo plea, unlike a guilty plea, cannot be used as an admission of guilt in a civil court, and evidence would have to be gathered...
...gravest problems facing the U.S. and its new President. It would be a body blow to the free world if the U.S. tried to solve the problem by slashing foreign aid or by retreating to protectionism after a decade of heartening progress toward freer trade. To avoid those paths, the U.S. will have to increase its exports, and that will entail meeting foreign-price competition by increasing productivity and translating part of the productivity gains into lower prices instead of higher wages...