Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...rest of the second-place pack, Cornell has only to face also-rans Columbia and Penn, so if the Big Red avoid an upset, it will waltz into a share of the crown--provided, of course, that Yale loses...
...trade off a dam here for a missile base there, or an agricultural subsidy for a few crucial treaty votes in the Senate. But there will at least be a basic consistency, and a conscious awareness of how and why he deliberately chooses to vary the course, to avoid this shoal or take advantage of that prevailing political wind. Then policy-making ceases to be an exercise in the abstract, or a matter of rootless, drifting pragmatism. Intellectual discipline returns to it, and arguments once more have a focus and coherence that give edge to the process of public debate...
...INTELLECTUAL. No other social class suffered more during 1966-69 Cultural Revolution than the intellectuals "the stinking ninth category," in the pungent rhetoric of the Red Guards. Few scientists, writers or professors were able to avoid terms of "reform through labor." The victims use a different phrase today: "being sent to the countryside." Many were so persecuted that they committed suicide. Says Huan Xiang, vice president we the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: 'Tor years we imbued ourselves in dogma. Our heads were down and our feet were up in the air. Now we have our feet back...
...attitude. When asked whether people Like the Gang of Four could return to power in China within the next ten years, only 5.4% responded with a firm no. More than half replied that such a return was "possible," and 39% said that it would be "difficult to avoid." About their own futures, 54% said that they felt "uncertain," compared with 36% who declared themselves "full of confidence...
...Halloween dance. An intoxicated man reacted with hostility to the fact that two of our group were dressed in cross-gender attire. Before being removed by a policeman who happened to walk in, he struck two people and reinforced in many others the belief that it is important to avoid at all costs "appearing gay" in public. We were all reminded that anyone who is identified as gay is extremely vulnerable to attack. Walking home--in a group, for safety's sake--I was more aware than ever that the closet which supposedly protects gay people is nothing more than...