Word: avoid
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Legally, ride-sharing services avoid the regulations that govern for-hire businesses like taxicabs by forbidding drivers to solicit requests for passengers. If the business grows--and if there are some high-profile incidents--that could change. "It's a gray area," says Paul Angenend, an attorney specializing in transportation law. "If you ride-share 20 times a month, then you're in the for-hire business...
...judges also advised Mellen to abridge legal descriptions, avoid the word “quota,” and emphasize the Board’s “desegregative” role in the community...
Wednesday, November 1, 10:32 a.m.: Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers settled a dispute between two individuals last Wednesday, one of whom had reportedly thrown an egg at the other individual, who was bicycling. The cyclist swerved to avoid the egg, and accidentally hit a car, falling of the bicycle. Injuries were not serious...
...dangerous San Francisco liberal, she succeeded in keeping the focus on them. And the first woman Speaker-to-be was pitch-perfect in the euphoric days that followed the Democrats' big win. She said the right things, and she did the right things, like quietly reshuffling her ranks to avoid a showdown between Rahm Emanuel, the campaign-committee chief who delivered her majority, and James Clyburn, a senior member of the black caucus. Even the arrival of her sixth grandchild seemed auspiciously timed to remind everyone of her motherly side. Yet before many Democrats across the country had even taken...
...participating in the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl, her younger sister and her parents last March in the village of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad; in Fort Campbell, Ky. Asked why he did it, Barker, who cut a deal to avoid the death penalty and agreed to testify against his four alleged co-conspirators, said, "I hated Iraqis ... They can smile at you, then shoot you in your face without even thinking about...