Word: avoiding
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Dormitory residents are required to sign anagreement not to display banners outside thebuilding or face disciplinary action. Universityofficials have argued that the policy is necessaryto avoid conflict with neighborhood residents...
...firm of Finley Kumble Wagner, which has many Wall Street clients, notes that raiders and arbitragers can form what he calls an "unholy alliance." In a typical maneuver, they might have a mutual commitment to buy up stock in a company, limiting their blocks to less than 5% to avoid the SEC's required disclosure rule. Then one member of the ring can leak the rumor of an impending takeover. When legitimate arbitragers leap into the fray, the group can unload at an inflated stock price and make off with enormous profits. Says Bergstein: "Both the raider and the arbitrager...
Booker Cole belongs to the black community's newest lost generation, the shadow that America crosses the street to avoid and finds uncomfortable to discuss. It evokes a sense of fear laced with guilt, anger tinged with racism. For many of these youths, fathering children out of wedlock and committing crimes are rites of passage. Richard Wright drew a complex portrait of such disaffected young black men in the character of Bigger Thomas, the antihero of his controversial 1940 protest novel Native Son. Today there is a new generation of Bigger Thomases in the U.S., thousands of Native Sons...
That sort of symbolism is precisely what the University has been trying to avoid. But as long as Harvard refuses to face up to its moral responsibilities by divesting completely from South Africa-related companies and as long as activists are willing to face the consequences of their acts of disobedience, such symbolism is appropriate and justified--and so are arrests...
...productive plants -- and, in all likelihood, fewer workers, who will receive lower wages in return for better guarantees of job security. The reality is that the future for the major U.S. auto companies is already here. The heartening fact is that not one of them is trying to avoid...