Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that 6,900 persons have been arrested since the takeover, 746 have been convicted by military courts, and three have been hanged-the first application of the death penalty in eight years. In at least nine cases, it has been suspected that detainees were tortured to death. Anxious to avoid blame for excessive, police-state brutality, however, the central authorities in each case launched an investigation and sacked eight of the local police commanders...
...robot, a dream as old as man's yearning to avoid doing his chores (see box), is finally emerging from the pages of science fiction and beginning to transform the way the world works. What this amounts to is nothing less than a robot revolution. It promises to revive decaying industries and give smaller firms all the benefits of mass production. Ultimately, it may also transform the way society itself is organized and the way it assesses its values. These steel-collar workers already paint cars, assemble refrigerators, drill aircraft wings, mine coal and, for that matter, wash windows...
...that the rich are any sadder than the rest of us, of course, but that they are so surprised at finding themselves sad at all. It is not that they are any more bored than the rest of us, either, but that they go to so much trouble to avoid being...
...legal self-counseling movement has a father figure, it is Norman Dacey, a retired estate planner who in 1965 spent $22,000 of his own money to publish How to Avoid Probate! He went door to door to bookstores in his home town, Bridgeport, Conn., and a few copies found their way to Brentano's in New York City, where the book was an instant success. Crown Publishers bought the rights, and Dacey shot to the top of the bestseller lists, ultimately selling 1.5 million copies. He was also No. 1 on many lawyers' hit lists...
Also, he said, the U.S. should "avoid entanglements with personnified governments." Because of the emphasis on personal ties to the shah, the U.S. "lost sight of the greater interests--not only national interests and those of our friends and allies, but those of the Iranian people...