Word: avoiding
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...same council that "strongly urges" the administration to assume the cost of the rug amended the bill to avoid assuming the cost themselves...
...April 29), a rise in cases of chlamydia recorded by the University Health Service (UHS) made front-page news. To my mind, however, the most interesting story came at the very end of the article. According to UHS infection control surveillance officer Donna Y. Campbell, "If students want to avoid the illness altogether, they might consider abstinence....But...it is not UHS's intention to proscribe promiscuity among undergraduates." Otherwise, Campbell might...
...occurred between him and Carpino. But their comments, designed in part to protect Reimer, the Army's top general, betray a willingness to disparage a female accuser. They suggest it was Carpino who was the harasser, the one "stalking" Hale. The general, they say, wanted to retire quickly to avoid dragging himself and the Army through the mud. "She thought she was going to get to marry a general, so she dumped the colonel," an Army officer volunteers. "But Hale apparently didn't live up to her view of his obligation, so the hell-hath-no-fury syndrome took over...
...that he sired. In St. Charles, Mo., last week a modern parallel to that myth may have emerged. If charges are true, Brian Stewart, 31, possesses a similarly cold-blooded compulsion. He is accused of first-degree assault for injecting HIV-positive blood into his infant son, allegedly to avoid paying child support. If the boy is finally eaten away by disease, authorities say, they will elevate the charge to murder...
...greater disruption if the animal wins federal protection, Colorado officials have organized a 200-member coalition to draft the state's own protection plan, which may include finding the mice and relocating some of them into sanctuaries. "It's in the interest of both mouse and man to avoid drastic measures," says Congressman David Skaggs of Boulder, a Democrat who secured a $400,000 appropriation to fund the project. "Nobody wants an endangered-species train wreck in the areas where Colorado's population is growing the most rapidly...