Word: avoidable
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...troubling, however, is that all of HIID's resources and international development activities have been shifted toward the newly formed Center for International Development (CID). To an outside observer, this step seems like the tactic of some Nepali hotels that change their names on a regular basis to avoid taxation. Even though CID now has a different, more Cambridge-focused mission--as opposed to HIID, CID does not have any permanent overseas offices--it is in many ways a clone of its scandal-plagued predecessor. CID has adopted many similar projects and employs a large percentage of HIID's former...
Jane Glickman, of the Department of Education public affairs office, stressed that "flexible repayment plans according to income and extended payment plans" have helped students to avoid defaulting on their loans...
Running for office involves many sacrifices. The sacrifice seems especially great when an office already won is traded for an uncertain post. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) has tried to avoid this sacrifice by running in Connecticut's Senate election at the same time he runs for vice president. Although it is understandable that Lieberman would want to retain his place in the Senate if he were defeated, his party and his integrity call upon him to concentrate solely on the vice presidential race...
...seemed to get his foot tangled in the rhetorical garden hose from time to time. Like his father, he has spotty sense of timing - preprogammed phrases tend to pop up at unexpected times - and unlike his father, he still needs work on his foreign policy if he's to avoid a daily beating in the New York Times. But after this, the first of the last three Possible Turning Points of this airtight race, the two men seemed eminently, well, comparable. Few supporters seem likely to be disappointed, and few minds seem likely to be changed. Which was all George...
...They have had every chance to avoid the situation that confronts us today,'' Bush said. "And now they have nothing but excuses, bad ideas and - as the clock runs out - one last ploy: opening the strategic reserve...