Word: avoiding
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...reducingbilingual education to a narrow political issue,"Crawford said the federal government must use itseducation policy to preserve the culture of ethnicminorities. He said that scrapping federalrequirements for bilingual education would hurtthe students' education as a whole because it"would produce exactly what [bilingual education]has tried to avoid"--the problem of losing ethnicidentity...
...They tried to avoid calamity. It sounds like they did a good job at it," said Michael Patrick '65, manager of the University of Texas's endowment, the nation's second largest endowment after Harvard...
THERE ARE still some caveats even if the practitioner of "safe sex" manages to avoid such trauma. Industry and government studies demonstrate that the AIDS virus cannot penetrate latex condoms. Other studies, though, underscore the susceptibility of latex condoms to rapid deterioration when exposed to heat, light or oil-based lubricants. (I know of no studies examining the effects of genuine cowhide on latex.) And earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration ordered three major condom manufacturers to recall 100,000 condoms after spot inspections found many with excessive leaks...
...four-day-a-week job, Simon says, but it would also result in enough new tax revenue to balance the budget. He has repeatedly argued that, for every percentage point reduction in unemployment, the deficit falls by $30 billion. While appealing, this claim is really just a way to avoid discussing hard political choices, such as a tax increase...
...economy had enough momentum going into the October stock-market crash, the country may be able to avoid slumping into a recession. Last week that hope was fortified when the Government announced that the U.S. economy grew at a robust 4.1% annual rate during the third quarter. Two categories that showed increased strength were exports and business investment, which means the U.S. is lessening its dependence on consumer spending...