Word: eschewing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weinberger's token anti-smoking campaign is bound to fail. Obviously, it's the governmental equivalent of the parental maxim, "Do as I say, not as I do." On one hand, Uncle Sam tells his soldiers to eschew the evil tobacco leaf, while on the other, he provides them discounts on cigarettes...
...songwriting and instrumental ability, these guys approach the level of XTC. All the songs are built on the complex riffs of lead guitarist lain Harvie intermingling with the equally complex riffs of guitarist Brian Tolland. Usually these two play eschew electric guitars for acoustics, and the striking thing is that they don't lose any power in doing so. Songs like "Hammering Heart" and "Crows In The Wheatfield" are anthems, for Christ's sake, and they are played with guitars that are actually made out of wood...
Translated into his performance on the job, Bok's morality leads him eschew flag-waving in favor of carefully--some say sluggishly--thrashing out the major points on all issues, whether it be divestiture or deciding whether to grant tenure to a young scholar Bok, friends say feels constrained from fully putting into practice all his ethical beliefs by the institutional paramaters...
Boss suits come in rich combinations of colors from blue to peach. They are cut to accentuate the lines of the body, but they eschew the pointy lapels and extra pockets of more extreme European designs. As a result, the suits do not look out of place at an executive board meeting. Made of top-quality wool, silk, linen and cotton from Italy, Boss suits cost from $200 to $300 in Europe and $400 to $500 in the U.S. They typically run about $100 less than suits made by such leading European designers as Armani and Valentino...
They are products of the television age: their regional accents have been smoothed and diluted, their dress is subdued, their ambition is high. They eschew the flamboyant rhetoric of old pols like Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd and House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas, preferring a more measured and sometimes sardonic tone. They even look alike, which is to say telegenic. Says Hart, their most conspicuous spokesman: "Everyone in my generation is good on television. If we weren't, we wouldn't have...