Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ackermann says she also tried to avoid the chches of political memoirs. "I wanted to write the kind of book that I would like to read," she says. "I used a lot of dialogue and worked up to a climax because you have to be kind to your reader...
...your normal teenage pastimes, but Koop managed to avoid being the science nerd with a slide rule in his back pocket. He was on the wrestling, football and baseball teams, editor of the school paper and president of the student council. He went on to Dartmouth and Cornell University Medical College, completing his training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He surprised many people when he decided to specialize in pediatric surgery, a decidedly low-rent field in those days, when the real brains were going into neurosurgery. "Children weren't getting a fair shake in surgery, getting giant...
...audience. But repercussions from the unpopular project may not be over. Actor J.T. Walsh, who plays Woodward in the film, was set to appear next in Loose Cannons, a comedy co-starring Dan Aykroyd. According to insiders, Walsh was let go after just one day on the set, to avoid upsetting Aykroyd. All of which may simply set the stage for another round of the Belushi media blitz. Anyone for The Making of Wired...
Paleologos, who chairs the House Education Committee, said that the "worship" of Japanese educational success has been used as a "political club" by Americans to avoid facing the problems of the country's educational system...
...acknowledging that we choose at different moments to print some advertisements and not others, we cannot avoid our resposibility for those we do publish. And although Eastern's statement is not overtly offensive, it contains political and social overtones that we cannot ignore...