Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly, hand braces seem a la mode. People don't ask anymore when they see friends with braces on both wrists. Repetitive Strain Injury, or RSI, has become a way of life for many Harvard students. For others it is a common ailment they hope to avoid...
...while Radcliffe's endowment spending may seem liberal--especially in comparison to Harvard's stingy 3.7 percent--Vice President for College Relations Bonnie Clendenning contends that Radcliffe is "financially conservative," saying the trustees are usually cautious to avoid going into debt...
Your fine article on developments in cruise ships [BUSINESS, May 11] omitted a significant factor that makes this industry so profitable. Cruise ships are subsidized by (surprise!) American taxpayers. Congress allows shipping companies to register their vessels overseas to avoid paying federal taxes, although most of these companies' revenues come from American passengers. You should also have reported how much money the industry contributes to Congress to keep the status quo. It seems American taxpayers are the steerage passengers on these new Titanics. ALVIN LOPEZ Sierra Madre, Calif...
...Tutut. Still in: Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita. TIME Jakarta correspondent Terry McCarthy rates Habibie's cabinet a C-minus: "It's only halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done." Habibie did craftily avoid making a move against his military bête noire, Defense Minister General Wiranto. "If he fired Wiranto now," McCarthy points out, "he would have split the military...
...frank homage to The Honeymooners' Art Carney. But Seinfeld's fans have always been rather smug when they declare that the show is "about nothing" and that its prime directive is "No hugging. No learning." The idea seems to be that to find humor in trivia and to avoid sentiment is very happening, now, today...