Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...matter of inadequate data, but involves implicit assumptions about America's global role and definitions of "national interests" which guide and direct what policy-makers do with data. It is these assumptions and definitions, as opposed to methods for gathering intelligence, which may require amendment if we are to avoid future foreign policy disasters. Above all we need "intelligence"--information--far less than we need intelligent policy...
...primary education, in return for his promise to build the department. Those who represented post-secondary education interests feared that, given the NEA's vital role in establishing the department and a Secretary who came from the primary sector, higher education's pleas might be ignored. Carter had to avoid alienating the NEA, however, which saw the Department as a down-payment for a 1980 endorsement. In the end, he picked the wisest and most politically expedient course--nominating an effective, respected public figure whose background was solid enough to arouse interest but vague enough to seem fair...
...department off on the right foot. As the newest kid on the block, Hufstedler would have to hold her ground, ready to fight for her portion of the federal turf--money and manpower that other agencies would not relinquish without a struggle. Meanwhile, she had to avoid getting tangled up in the nuances of bureaucratic affairs that threatened to ground her well-laid plans...
...minority leaders and big-city mayors fear that this will not be enough to avoid a sizable undercount. They complain that the Census Bureau, which has been consulting them, has not followed enough of their advice...
...probable outcome of the policy review is a reaffirmation of restraint, since the U.S. wants to avoid permanently alienating Banisadr and his allies. Part of the Administration's thinking is based on the firmly held tenet that it is vital to long-term U.S. interests that Iran not fall into the Soviet orbit. Many Iranian officials agree; Defense Minister Mustafa Ali Chamran said that in the event of a Soviet attack Iran would expect the U.S. to come to its aid. The leaders of the revolution in Tehran, moreover, now seem to be taking seriously the Soviet military presence...