Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though jaundice is quite common among infants, it does not usually lead to the problem she studies. Typically it is treated in time to avoid any damage...
...hold your breath. Congress all too often abdicates its duty, passing vexatious policy questions to the bureaucracy and the courts via vaguely worded statues. By doing so, legislators avoid taking stances on controversial issues, which is to say they protect their hides for the next election. The phenomenon is not isolated to sexual harassment: Congress has punted continually on racial preferences, environmental regulation, entitlement reform, etc., ad nauseam...
...administration knew Helms-Burton is bad policy but felt trapped into signing it," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Very little has been done to actually implement the law, and the President has repeatedly waived key provisions." Now the two sides appear to have reached a compromise to avoid wrecking the World Trade Organization, which has served both parties well. And while no one is revealing the details, don't expect the U.S. to make trouble for Europeans doing business with Havana any time soon...
...master's degree in computer science. He is still active in the republican movement, albeit in its nonviolent branch. An agreement, he says, was necessary even if it brings unwanted compromises. The alternative is more violence. "Anyone who has been involved in armed struggle will do anything to avoid it," he says. McConville has five children, the oldest a 10-year-old girl who, mirroring her dad, is already politically savvy. "If this conflict does not come to an end," says McConville, "I will be visiting her either in prison or the graveyard. It has to end." He regrets nothing...
...other hand, Clinton was able to avoid public discussion of the latest White House scandal simply by appearing in sober settings with people like Nelson Mandela. Lacking protective schedulers, I was not able to do the same--which hardly seemed fair, since I'm the one who definitely hadn't done anything wrong...