Word: eschewing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue for almost 20 years, latching on to one discredited compromise after another while ignoring the pleas of such moral authorities as South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a member of the Board of Overseers. An educational institution that claims to uphold moral principles must recognize the imperative to eschew profits derived from institutionalized racism...
...there are few dog-eared tomes from a hundred years ago to consult on the divisive issues of today. Liberals are worried that just as Souter spurns gold chains and Club Med vacations, he will also eschew the "penumbras" emanating from the Constitution that activist judges have used to find heretofore unknown protections -- like the guarantee of privacy, which underlies Roe v. Wade's right to abortion. New Hampshire Governor Judd Gregg predicts that "Souter won't graft current ideas or social concerns onto constitutional law." In a dissent he wrote in 1986, Souter said "the court's interpretive task...
...issue for almost 20 years, latching on to one discredited compromise after another while ignoring the pleas of such moral authorities as South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a member of the Board of Overseers. An educational institution that claims to uphold moral principles must recognize the imperative to eschew profits derived from institutionalized racism...
While some worry that an all-cash plan would encourage well-to-do students to eschew house dining halls, many of the college's wealthier students are already spending more time at Elsie's and Pinnochio's than in dining halls...