Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...with the hope that its mechanism never would have to be set in motion. Wrote Brown to his NATO colleagues: "We have no desire to fight a nuclear war." He emphasized, however, something that long has been the most fundamental premise of American deterrence theory: "The surest way to avoid such a war is to make certain that the Soviet leadership can have no illusions about what such a war would mean for Soviet state power. Of course, the capabilities of our forces, not our words about them, are the strongest influence on Soviet views...
...staff dismissed him as "Uncle Corn Pone." There is much evidence, however, that John Kennedy sincerely liked Lyndon and went out of his way to stroke his ego. There were, for example, those raucous fact-finding trips through Asia and India during which Johnson spurned State Department advice to avoid shaking hands with the unwashed masses. Nothing released his old progressive juices better than a crowd of impoverished farmers waiting for the word...
...says this event is "informal." Actually, you have to go out and buy a tux or evening gown to dine on rubbery chicken. Actually, you don't. You may as well trek up Garden St. to absorb the atmosphere, lie on the grass, maybe meet a few new people. Avoid the food, though...
...ultimate survival of the Sandinista regime depends on its ability to avoid a political rift between the leftists and the private sector. One potential crisis flared up last April following the abrupt resignations of two moderate junta members. Their departure was widely seen as a sign of an imminent leftward shift in the national leadership. But the government restored confidence by appointing two moderate replacements...
...collected from Bethlehem "commissions" amounting to $1.7 million. Most of this money was funneled back into the U.S. and into Colombia and Venezuela. It served as bribe funds to induce shipowners to use the Bethlehem yards. Federal prosecutors said that many payments were made in cash in order to avoid the creation of a "paper trail...