Word: avoidance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BEOWULF: The Anglo-Saxon epic, the bane of English majors, looks brand-new and thrilling in a verse translation by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. The tale may still strike readers as bloodthirsty, but Heaney's language evokes Beowulf's tragic stature, his helplessness to avoid - and his bravery while facing - the dictates of his fate...
...added that once the list is narrowed down, the names on the final list will be kept confidential to avoid giving them any perceived order...
...tradition among stars to go public with their recovery, and in fact they can hardly avoid it; Downey's drug abuse became news after his run-ins with the law. In the interest of full disclosure, TIME is among the many publications who've offered him a chance to tell his story since going to prison. But these past few years, Downey hasn't served himself by discussing his addictions and recovery every time he's been sober for a few weeks. It's called Alcoholics Anonymous for a reason: Going public with one's recovery, especially in the beginning...
...apartment search took so long, she explains, because she did not want to leave the Cambridge school district, and she wanted to avoid bringing her family into public housing...
...with the Yemenis in a hurry to finish the investigation, a Bin Laden connection may never be firmly established. Like their Saudi neighbors, the Yemenis are under strong domestic pressure to avoid being seen as doing the handiwork of the United States, whose Middle East policy has made it the target of considerable Arab anger. In the case of the Saudi investigation of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, that resulted in a quick trial and execution of local suspects without U.S. investigators ever having access to them, leaving the question of that attack's ultimate authorship unresolved. And observers suspect...