Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Brown claimed that the MX would not increase irrigation problems, stating that once the system was built it would annually require no more water than the amount "consumed at twelve golf courses in the Greater Las Vegas area." During seven years of construction, the Air-Force would try to avoid disrupting the region by forbidding the estimated 25,000 to 50,000 workers to bring their families with them. This would obviate the need to build new communities with schools and other facilities...
...then, over 400 professional, scientific and political organizations have refused to meet in non-ERA states, forgoing meetings in such traditional convention cities as Chicago, New Orleans and Miami. Now comes a major backslider from that boycott commitment: the American Psychiatric Association. On the pretense that the A.P.A. should avoid involvement in any political issue, the group voted 5,679 to 4,461 to rescind its boycott policy...
Other scholars use what could be called the cumulative argument: they contemplate the comparative plausibility of various arguments and evidences using Adler's favored standard of judgment, the jury's proof "beyond a reasonable doubt." This permits atheists to avoid having to disprove God absolutely, which is as hard to do as prove his existence, and lets theists cite human phenomena that strict empiricism used to rule out. In The Existence of God (Oxford; $37.50), Richard Swinburne of England's Keele University concludes: "The experience of so many men in their moments of religious vision corroborates what...
Naturally, no candidate says he deliberately misleads the press, or confesses to repeating himself constantly to avoid the risk of saying something new. But candid admissions of such practices by their predecessors are beginning to turn up in the history books. Remember Eisenhower's contorted syntax in press conferences? Jim Hagerty, Ike's press secretary, was worried about what the President might say about the 1955 Quemoy-Matsu crisis, but Ike reassured him: "Don't worry, Jim, if that question comes up, I'll just confuse them...
...deluding ourselves if we think we can avoid serious budget cutbacks," Duehay said...