Word: avoidance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and Gorbachev will begin to address these questions at the Saltwater Summit. What can two men in a boat do when they put up their feet? Primarily, they will have the chance to assure each other that they both are eager to avoid crackdowns in East bloc states. The Club Med casualness will provide the perfect atmosphere to discuss the beneficial roles that NATO and the Warsaw Pact could play during a time of exciting but potentially dangerous transition...
...preparing his subjects for Jordan's first parliamentary elections in 22 years, King Hussein offered a piece of advice: avoid voting for "extremists." But when voters went to the polls last week, they ignored his warning in fairly spectacular fashion. With 647 candidates running for 80 seats, the biggest winner turned out to be the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. Its candidates and supporters won 34 seats. The Communists and others of the far left also made gains. By contrast, the moderate factions that Hussein has entrusted with day-to-day power for more than two decades suffered heavy losses...
...right, you'll usually lose a little less than you gain. Yippee! But you've got to keep your transaction costs low and, of course, not get caught with a taxable gain on one half of the hedge without realizing your loss on the other half. It was to avoid that hitch, basically, that Princeton/Newport entered into understandings with Drexel Burnham Lambert and other firms to make these tax sales. "Look," Regan's traders said in essence, "you're not going to have any risk because we're going to buy these things back once we've satisfied...
...200th anniversary of the founding of the first American diocese. But their deliberations quickly turned sober as they confronted thorny problems that dominated the agenda. Among their actions: a response to AIDS that urges compassion for those with HIV infection -- and strict chastity as the only sure way to avoid the disease -- but sidesteps the bishops' earlier qualified toleration of condom education; a reiterated call for a Palestinian homeland and security for Israel; and a stepped-up antiabortion campaign...
WITH less than a month to go before our second annual A.W.A.R.E. week, I can hardly believe how blind the Harvard community is to its own ethnocentrism. Most of us are aware of the evils of racism and avoid at all costs the appearance of prejudice against those of different color, religion, or sexual orientation. But we are blind to the more subtle and pervasive issue of ethnocentrism in the classroom...