Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge cannot avoid drawing on historical context and past judicial decisions when ruling on the meaning of a Constitutional passage, said Paul Brest, professor of clinical legal education at Stanford. Otherwise, the judge would be ignoring "the moderating forces of evolution" that acted on the original text. For example, the forces of time caused the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to protect all minorities and women instead of just Blacks, said Brest...
Although Lionel's Harvard stint received substantial media attention, Harvard administrators did what they could to help Harvard '69 avoid publicity. The Crimson and the local media left him alone, even when during his sophomore year he dated a Simmons College woman whose last name was Radcliffe. Harvard now lives in Peru...
...rescued by Bedouins. One young actress, Evelyne Bouix, looks the fitting image of Aimee; another, Marie-Sophie Pochat, weeps becomingly. Everything else is a stupid botch. For those who loved A Man and a Woman, and for those who thought it was swank swill, this is a movie to avoid...
Indeed, rappers have produced songs that urge kids to stay in school and avoid crime and drugs. The majority of rap lyrics are concerned with nothing more volatile than partying and macho boasting. Yet since rap became popular several years ago, many performances have been marred by brutality. Says Public Safety Commissioner John Norton of Pittsburgh, where teenagers went on a window-smashing rampage after a Run-D.M.C. concert in June: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that rap music spurs violence...
...Wayne McGuire, 34, a doctoral candidate from the University of Oklahoma, felt she was more comfortable with the primates than with human beings, and Fossey apparently agreed. "I have no friends," she once said. "The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people...