Word: avoiding
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After nearly four years of pressure, the 62 surviving women cadets (out of the original 119) in the Class of '80, the first to admit women, are also fed up with the limelight. "I always try to avoid interviews," says one emphatically. "I say to reporters, 'Go ask that male cadet the same things...
...vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the amendment, which calls for a question in all registration forms asking men if they would try to avoid induction by claiming to be conscientious objectors...
...turning point," warned Ezra Vogel, chairman of Harvard's Council of East Asian Studies and author of Japan as Number One: Lessons for America. "If we are to avoid going the way of Britain, we have to act fast." Added Harvard Economics Professor Otto Eckstein: "The 1980s are a decisive decade. The forces of decline can be stemmed, but if we fail to come to grips with our problems, the U.S. will wind up taking a back seat to more disciplined countries such as West Germany, Japan and possibly even some totalitarian countries developing along socialist lines...
...only mothers can learn: "I can certainly sympathize with a father who doesn't want to be a witness to the pain of labor, or who is frightened by hospitals and wary of birth: all that blood and gore. I absolutely understand why he would want to avoid dirty diapers. And I believe him when he says he doesn't know the first thing about caring for a baby. That's exactly how most mothers feel. The difference is, most mothers don't have a choice...
...enough to avoid straightforward political persecution in professional appointments. This is the ground level of academic freedom, but it is only that. It is hardly a great achievement so long as the country's established institutions are not felt to be in jeopardy. The second level of academic freedom is the avoidance of the dictatorship of orthodoxies that make no real effort to separate their commitment to certain intellectual traditions from their evaluations of candidates. The two levels are directly linked to all branches of social thought: a politically adversarial stance is often accompanied by dissent from the ruling theoretical...