Word: avoidance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best choice for me right now (I personally have quit many times, and its short-term benefits are quiet compelling). There is the small problem of sneaking past the course officials without being seen, of plowing two or three miles through deep snow and trackless wilderness to avoid the grandstand, the starting gate, the shooting range and all the other skiers. That'd be tricky, but it's doable. Then just throw my skis and rifle and all my other junk in the rental car and drive like hell back to Jackson Hole, change my flight and head back...
...basis of the suit is the smell of a cartel. Web sites of individual airlines have long contained fares not available on, say, Expedia - a legitimate move designed to draw customers and thus avoid having to pay commissions to the independent agents. However, opponents say, if the Big Five get together, they are likely to offer such fares on their own combination site, thus providing an online petri dish for anticompetitive collusion. At first, say critics, those fares will beat those of their competitors, but once the competitors are forced into submission - either by bankruptcy...
...that there is no politically acceptable alternative. NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson this week issued the harshest condemnation by a Western official of the National Liberation Army (the Albanian separatist guerrilla group), calling them criminals and thugs. On the other hand, he also leaned heavily on the government to avoid declaring a state of war, which could inflame the conflict. The West has clearly been raising the pressure on the NLA in Kosovo, too, which remains the key logistical support base for the guerrillas in Macedonia...
...their annual meeting on May 16, the athletic directors of the ECAC will be voting on a proposal to change the current playoff format to allow all 12 men’s hockey teams into the postseason. To avoid making the ECAC even more of a laughing stock of a conference, I urge Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary ‘56 and all of the other headmen to please vote...
...included training in reading and numbers skills as well as considerable parental involvement. Researchers found that the 1,000 children who were enrolled in the programs, were more likely than the other 500 kids, whose parents sent them to few or no preschool sessions, to finish high school and avoid getting involved in criminal activity. The children were also far less likely than their peers to repeat classes in school or to receive failing grades - and the benefits increased for children who spent more time in the programs. (The researchers were careful to ensure that the two groups had equivalent...