Word: avoidance
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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...Princeton Tigers entered last weekend thinking they could avoid Ben Crockett and the type of ungodly stuff he usually throws, they were only half right...
...Black and White varsity eight found that the third time is not a charm on two counts. For one thing, Radcliffe couldn’t avoid a third straight third-place Easterns finish. For another, the Black and White dropped its rubber match with the defending champion Tigers, whom they beat in mid-April but lost to in their second meeting of the year last weekend...
Only by reforming Social Security can we avoid this Scylla and Charybdis. Workers must be allowed to keep some of their payroll taxes to create optional personal retirement accounts. Invested safely in bonds and blue-chip stocks, these accounts would earn higher returns than the current program. And allowing baby boomers to invest for retirement now would greatly decrease the cost of providing benefits when they retire...
...just fed Max some red meat as part of a training exercise, and the lion may have smelled the meat on Bourassa's latex glove. She was standing behind a safety fence, but apparently wrapped a finger around one of the bars - an encroachment zookeepers are taught to avoid...