Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...rehabilitation service of the Long Beach Naval Regional Medical Center for a seven-week drying out. Things were less antic for a while, but last week, adding to Jimmy Carter's woes this election year, Billy reluctantly registered as the agent of a foreign government in order to avoid possible criminal prosecution by his brother's Justice Department...
...upsets preconceptions. Self-styled sophisticates from elsewhere have long scoffed at the industrial city. Just last week a researcher from one of the television networks had the gall to ask a Detroit spokesman to help put together a list of a dozen "top mugging spots" for convention delegates to avoid. Actually, crime in the city has dropped dramatically in the past few years. And a European reporter who assumed the Detroit River was hopelessly polluted by the city's heavy industry looked out over the waterfront in astonishment at fishermen angling for coho salmon...
That is precisely the kind of devastating war that Continental leaders have always sought to avoid with the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella. Seven successive U.S. Presidents, including Jimmy Carter, have emphatically guaranteed that protection. Yet the widely perceived weakness of the present American leadership and the decline of U.S. nuclear superiority have again raised the unsettling question in Europe: Would Washington ever risk Chicago or New York for London or Paris? European worries about America's lack of commitment are surely exaggerated. Nonetheless, many defense experts on the Continent were duly impressed by Henry Kissinger...
...Mass in Candomblé country, John Paul repeated a theme of his African tour: Christianity can accept the "cultural expressions of any people," but must not "mutilate" its own teachings. The Pontiff also sought to heal breaches within the church itself, advising the hierarchy to compromise and avoid squabbling...
Firms locating in the areas probably will pay no local taxes, receive immediate and full tax write-offs for capital investment and avoid some paper work, like that required for government training grants...