Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...University does try to avoid the federal process-time-consuming as it may be-it will only raise further questions about the plant's safety and violate the trust in Harvard's ability to obey safety standards that the DEQE decision represents. MATEP's safety will only really be proven when the diesels are installed and the plant is spewing noxious gases into Mission Hill backyards. If at any time those pollutants exceed safety standards, the University should not hesitate to turn off the engines and take its losses. If Harvard balsk at this possibility, the state should step...
Recalling the legislature for its second special session in less than two weeks, King appealed for action to avoid the "potential human calamity" of a shutdown that would affect more than 200,000 daily riders...
Several hostage families have changed their telephone numbers to avoid such calls. But Plotkin is afraid to. She has re ceived two calls from her husband in Iran...
...this is the story of an institution as revered as breakfast, as certain as the sunrise. Since 1952, when the Today show first burbled at an unsuspecting world, millions of Americans have depended on early-morning television for news, weather, helpful household hints-and perhaps an excuse to avoid talking to spouses or children at that delicate hour...
...comic line like a Sheffield blade. Director Ellis Rabb does full justice to that, but he scants the social subtext of what is, in some ways, a defense of snobbery. Without carrying Brechtian placards, the play says in a variety of ways: "Marry your own kind," "Wealth sanctifies," "Avoid lesser breeds (like maids and intrusive upstart journalists) who violate the elitist code of being 'yare.' " That is the saline substance beneath the sleek surface of The Philadelphia Story, and it is only fitfully evident in this production...