Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew that we would eventually have to reconfigure the apartment to avoid the possibility of being constrained in some future search by limitations which are irrelevant to candidates' qualification," Nathans said...
...into the Free State aside, the narrator spends most of his days in less resplendent parts of Northern Ireland than stream's edge. His is a rather drab, traditional world, where the Catholic Church is the final arbiter of any question, but where religious allegiance must be downplayed to avoid the attention of the Protestant authorities, who are especially vigilant in the years following World War II in which the book is set. Old grudges are fresh in this society, and memories of the not-so-distant rebellions are almost more vivid than the events of daily life...
What then is to be done? How to avoid the over-the-top post-death hype that doesn't do the celebrity any good and usually nauseates those of us still among the living...
Hoping to avoid any unscripted episodes during President Clinton's visit to the ancient city of Xian today, Chinese authorities yesterday detained two of the city's leading dissidents, Yan Jun and Jiang Hangxia. They promised Jiang's wife he would be released within days if there were no "incidents...
...Although the bill will actually cost taxpayers $13 billion over the next 10 years, it's loaded with real benefits for citizens: Shifting the burden of proof in noncriminal cases from taxpayers to the agency; helping divorced women avoid paying for their deadbeat husband's debts; a break on the capital gains tax for investors. After all, $13 billion spread over a decade of budgets isn't much to pay -- not for a kinder, gentler...