Word: avoidance
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...Galluccio added that city council had no legal authority to avoid participation in the USA PATRIOT...
Hundreds of students and their families were forced to cram into dining halls to avoid the downpour...
...told the New York times two days ago that his group would refrain from sending bombers into Israel proper, focusing their attacks only on soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. And the Palestinian Authority appears to have extracted a similar promise from Hamas in order to avoid a Palestinian civil war - because the PA's very existence would be on the line if there were further attacks in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Palestinian leaders believe attacks on soldiers and settlers outside Israel's 1967 borders play quite differently in international public opinion. And besides, getting the militants...
...Amtrak is a disaster. A squeaking, rumbling, stopping-for-no-good-reason failure of a national rail service. How do I know? Suffice it to say I've spent a good deal of time over the last ten years either on Amtrak trains or desperately trying to avoid the Amtrak experience. At best, my train trips have been tolerable. At worst, they've given me the kind of heartburn that only comes from four hours of pent-up rage...
...shows some edge as a controlling parole officer, and guest star Red Buttons shines as a mobster in a who's-controlling-whom relationship with Cohen. But the writing is flat--like the clumsily topical terrorism subplot--and co-star Rob Morrow, as an ex-drug dealer trying to avoid the thug life, makes the least convincing felon since Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy. Give Street Time probation, but not yet approbation. --By James Poniewozik