Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Buchwald said he tries to avoid writing too many of his columns on the campaign not only because people aren't that interested, but also because the candidates simply don't have much potential for humor. The ideal candidate--and president--for comic exploitation was Richard Nixon, Buchwald recalled wistfully. "He was my favorite, my Camelot," he sighed, eyes misting over. Reminiscing about the days of Watergate, Buchwald said, "Everbody was lying. It was a running story. It ran for over a year. It was just beautiful--you didn't have to make anything...
...University's financial officers anticipate that response; although they say they try desperately each year to avoid tuition hikes by cutting corners wherever possible, they admit that tuition is the most malleable sector of the budget. So when the Faculty's energy costs jump more than 50 per cent, as they did last year, or when inflation pushes up the cost of lab equipment, administrators know they can--however reluctantly--mark up the bill for a Harvard education. And inflation has left little room for any future cost-cutting budget tinkering. As Melissa D. Gerrity, assistant dean of the Faculty...
...Although the Harvard Campaign--slated to have raked in $250 million by the time it ends in 1984--includes $12 million for House renovations and improvements, professional engineering firms have estimated that it would take $110 million or more to do the job. The University should investigate ways to avoid deferring maintenance--a practice that has contributed to today's high renovation costs--and should draw on resources such as Faculty members like Abernathy, for expert advice...
...problems began, paradoxically, with a decision that was at first applauded. To avoid the unrest that had top pled his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, in 1970, recently ousted Party Chief Edward Gierek embarked on a crash program to modernize Polish industry. The first results were impressive. From 1971 to 1975 industrial output soared 70%, and real wages rose at an annual average...
Both the State Department and the Pentagon chose to play the issue down, partly because of lack of hard information. Although they believe that the soldier wants to defect to avoid punishment for insubordination, they are not certain. Strangely, no one on the 16-member staff of the Kabul embassy speaks either Russian or German and the would-be defector thus has not yet been fully interrogated. For their part, the Soviets insist that he is a common criminal escaping from military justice. They charge that he was lured into the compound...