Word: avoidance
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...feel personally let down that the formation of this committee was used... as a bargaining chip to avoid talking about the problem at hand, which is the Ad Board policy,” Kutcher said...
...Allstate Insurance Company has recently discovered a way to avoid these pesky restrictions. In 1999, the company fired a group of 6,400 home and auto insurance agents, 90 percent of whom were over the age of 40. Allstate then offered them the possibility of getting rehired as “independent contractors,” with slightly higher pay but a significant loss in health and pension benefits. What’s more, the company required the “independent contractors” to waive their right to sue Allstate for, among other things, age discrimination. The message...
...tried very hard to avoid [moving students out],” said Thomas A. Dingman ’67, associate dean of the College. “Nobody likes to push anyone...
...Dingman said the renovations had to be started next week in order to finish by next semester’s move-in day—and avoid disrupting the next school year...
...specially-trained board—although sharing the current Ad Board’s prerogatives regarding punishment—would require special procedural safeguards reflecting the delicate nature of the cases it examined, including confidentiality throughout the proceedings and separate advocates for each party to avoid conflicts of interest. In designing the new board, experts from rape resource centers and other groups familiar with the complexities of rape cases must be consulted and their advice heeded. A new board should also protect students’ legitimate expectations of a fair process, one of the greatest flaws of the current...