Word: avoid
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...relevant pharmaceutical-company trials, both published and unpublished, before it will approve a drug. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the researchers writing in PLoS Medicine were recently able to obtain those FDA records of industry-sponsored clinical trials. They yield data, they believe, that lets them avoid a bias that often plagues reviews of previous research: the tendency for conclusive positive results to be published, sometimes more than once, and thus over-represented, while mediocre results can be ignored or even swept under...
...Several of the students mentioned on the site have contacted administrators regarding potential recourse against the bloggers, said one student featured on the site. The student asked to remain anonymous to avoid provoking greater attention from the bloggers...
...teenage female lead I feel like we've never seen before." While most Spirit Award winners are usually little known, Juno is a commercial hit, approaching $130 million at the domestic box office. Wilson, who plays a convenience store clerk in the film, noted that Juno had managed to avoid the obscure fate of "every single other movie we're honoring today...
This cautious leadership style is understandable, but it is unacceptable. With leading scientists calling for the industrialized world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, there is no time for a leading university like Harvard to commit to only short-term plans. We must drive the change that scientists—including many Harvard faculty members—say we need...
...killed dozens of high-ranking U.S. officials and a few hundred innocent bystanders. Now you're tearing through town in your getaway van with precious cargo in the back and a Secret Service agent on your tail. Would you hit the car breaks and risk being caught just to avoid running into a little girl on the highway...