Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...McLuhanesque terms, for television. Says he: "There is a certain gladiatorial aspect to such an affair, but I shall not come clanking onto the stage in armor that evening. I would hope that I could come equipped with a certain amount of discretion, humor, wisdom, and avoid what some people say is a tendency on my part to preach and sermonize...
...expert. The group is sometimes joined by Arthur Burns, conservative chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from 1970 to 1978. The advisers acknowledge that the extra revenues generated by speedier economic growth will not offset the impact of the tax cuts, hence the sharp reductions in spending to avoid huge deficits...
Such mass defections threatened to reduce the government's official labor organizations to empty administrative shells. Seeking to avoid that eventuality, newly installed C.R.Z.Z. Chairman Romuald Jankowski called for sweeping reforms aimed at turning the existing bodies into "independent and self-governing organizations for working people." He appealed to workers to remain in the old unions, elect new leaders, and "help us change our policy...
...explain this in the United States," because the creed of the Argentine journalist is indeed foreign. "You don't think about getting scoops," Cox says, "but you want to use information in order to arouse people's consciences about this breakdown in society." Cox's paper also tries to avoid expressing a political ideology. To him, the left and the right in Argentina have become almost identical in their use of terror and torture; and both have equally been waging psychological warfare...
which issues to stress and avoid, when and where TV spots should be shown, and even where Carter should go and when...