Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who's been a kid knows that a parent's obsession is pretty hard for a kid to avoid taking on, if only subconsciously. (Within half-a-dozen years, of course, Emily might easily be doing the Deepak Chopra thing just to drive her mother crazy.) So while the idea of testing TT was all Emily's, her parents were only too eager to bring her up to speed on the scientific method and statistical analysis. Moreover, mother and stepfather, along with Dr. Stephen Barrett, chairman of an outfit called Quackwatch Inc., helped her write the paper. Linda...
...there are other challenges to overcome. The film's profit potential will be hampered because the seriousness of the subject matter has wiped out any hope for lucrative merchandising deals and Happy Meals. There will be no burning-bush night-lights. The filmmakers must also tread carefully to avoid offending the too-numerous-to-count religious communities that regard the story of Moses as their own. To ensure authenticity, Katzenberg says, he has met with more than 500 religious leaders, including a pontifical council on social reform at the Vatican and Fundamentalist minister Jerry Falwell...
...reason all this is important is that every company in the world wants to avoid lawsuits. And thanks to the sexual-harassment rulings, it is easier than ever to file one. Wright's decision doesn't change that. Indeed, because most companies pay settlements to make cases disappear, it should be sobering that even Jones' weak case got as far as it did. If business groups had their way, judges would limit standing for sexual-harassment cases to ones claiming a strict quid pro quo. Wright's ruling did not do that. It merely said that Jones, who had little...
...like other nations, the U.S. will have to adapt to a new century. With a global economy that will be increasingly knowledge based, we will no longer be able to permit unequal educational opportunities. Schools will need to be open to competition and subjected to standards so that we avoid creating a two-tiered society. We also must realize, as both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt did, that capitalism can be efficient but it can also be cold. America's social fabric is strong when it weaves together rewards for individual initiative and neighborly compassion for all members of the community...
While in Europe for a year to avoid severe criminal penalties, partly due to her political radicalism, partly for violating postal obscenity laws, she learned more about contraception, the politics of sexuality and the commonality of women's experience. Her case was dismissed after her return to the States. Sanger continued to push legal and social boundaries by initiating sex counseling, founding the American Birth Control League (which became, in 1942, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America) and organizing the first international population conference. Eventually her work would extend as far as Japan and India, where organizations she helped start...