Word: avoidance
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...also careful to avoid appearances that one is more powerful than the other, even going as far as alternating the order in which their names appear on memos and papers...
...with Arafat than he really is. And that's because he realizes that he's in a difficult position. After the Tel Aviv disco bombing, Arafat was hours away from suffering a very serious Israeli strike, and he wanted the cease-fire at that point to avoid retaliation. Three weeks later, he doesn't need the cease-fire as much. He's popular at home, and doesn't have to deal with an opposition as long as his interests are the same as those of the opposition. But Sharon needs the cease-fire now, because his election promise...
...That, of course, is precisely what NATO has hoped to avoid throughout the past decade. But the fact that such an eventuality now appears to be upon us is in no small part a product of NATO's failure, out of concern for the safety of its own personnel, to do two things: Tackle the Albanian extremism incubated in its Kosovo protectorate, and lend a firm hand to Macedonia's efforts to stop it from taking root...
...problems," says Bill Richardson, who was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Energy and is now teaching public policy at Harvard. Meanwhile, utilities may be adding new power plants to the grid at the rate of one a day. Richardson says the boost should enable the Midwest and Northeast to avoid blackouts this summer. And he expects the lights to stay on in New York City, which recently rushed emergency facilities into place...
...recent months, however, their situation has grown more desperate. China has launched a broad crackdown on the North Koreans, who are considered refugees by the rest of the world but illegal aliens by Beijing. In Yanji, in eastern Jilin province, North Korean families last week were scrambling to avoid getting caught up in house-to-house searches. Police have posted notices urging people to report a long list of undesirables, including murderers, rapists and people giving jobs to illegal aliens?and offering rewards for tips. This spring, four members of Good Friends, a Seoul-based refugee aid group working...