Word: avoided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sift through the Nicaraguan Ambassador's residence in Panama City on Dec. 29. The U.S.'s chief U.N. delegate, Thomas Pickering, called the action an "honest mistake." Perhaps. But one might think that the U.S., whose embassies in Tehran and Islamabad have been sacked, would take more care to avoid such a mistake...
...fifth morning (I now had a good sense of the time of day), the guard opened the door. He grunted and beckoned towards the stairs. I did not want to ask questions; blind compliance seemed the best way to avoid further injury. As we left the cell, Dennis pressed something into Zac's hand...
...married men have become Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. The most recent was ordained in New York just last week. (Some 20 married converts have become priests elsewhere in the West since Pope Pius XII allowed the first such dispensation in 1951.) Although church officials have sought to avoid publicity about the unusual American program, it has been chronicled in a new book, The Pastoral Provisions: Married Catholic Priests (Sheed & Ward; 152 pages; $13.95), by priest-sociologist Joseph H. Fichter of Loyola University in New Orleans...
...rejected any suggestion that Sotheby's was worried about losing business. "You don't grow from $400 million to nearly $3 billion in annual sales within five years if people don't have confidence in you," he says. Still, Ainslie concedes that the timing was intended to avoid any ruckus before Sotheby's big spring sales of impressionist paintings in New York City and London...
...always been a hard man to avoid, but these days Ted Turner seems to be everywhere. His thriving TV empire, which started as a single Atlanta UHF station, has grown to four nationwide cable networks. The newest of them, Turner Network Television, has been an unexpected hit, more than doubling its audience after just 15 months on the air. CNN and Headline News, his two all- news channels, grow in resourcefulness and credibility with each passing world crisis. Turner has launched a publishing company, and is shopping for a movie studio (though negotiations to purchase MGM/UA have come...