Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tacked a number of political demands onto their calls for a $67-a-month pay increase and a rollback of meat prices. Among them: the establishment of more representative trade unions and the building of a monument to the 49 Gdansk workers killed during the 1970 riots. Seeking to avoid another bloody confrontation, officials at first showed a surprising willingness to negotiate, even at the risk of conferring a de facto legitimacy on the right to strike. Hours after the Gdansk action began, the state-controlled press reported that the government had offered a $40-a-month pay increase...
...mart has succeeded primarily by careful planning and by accumulating remarkably little debt. The company leases all its buildings to avoid construction loans and mortgages. The chain will soon complete its network of eleven regional warehouses, located within a one-day drive of most stores, allowing K mart stores to keep inventories at a minimum, reducing a major source of debt. The distribution network also allows local managers to order merchandise independently. As a result, K mart's Sunbelt stores never get stuck with too many Snowbelt specialties, like ice hockey sticks...
...euphemistically called "prudent cash management." But to its victims this is the old game of "Your check is in the mail." Says John Gordana, president of Equitable Adjustment Service, Inc., in New Jersey: "Normally responsible executives with good credit records are conjuring up ingenious techniques to stall or avoid bill payments...
Excerpt "Sedulously avoiding the standard sights is probably the best method of disguising your touristhood. In London one avoids Westminster Abbey and heads in stead for the Earl of Burlington's eighteenth-century villa at Chiswick. In Venice one must walk by circuitous smelly back passages fair out of one's way to avoid being seer in the Piazza San Marco . . . Each tourist center has its interdicted zone: in Rome you avoid the Spanish Steps ... in Paris the Deux Ma gots and the whole BouF Mich area in Nice the Promenade des Anglais in Egypt Giza with...
Poetry has long been regarded in America as unprofitable and sissy. A laureateship would be a way to give the craft some livelier hormones. It might also serve to draw poetry more into public realms, out of the excruciating and quivering privacy in which it now abides. To avoid the English laureate's hobbling obsequiousness, an American laureate would have to be guaranteed his independence. But beware of a lifelong appointment, like one to the Supreme Court; it might make a poet fatuous, "official" and eventually senile...