Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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People often try to ignore the homeless, walking quickly away from them or turning their heads as if they do not see them. Some will even cross the street to avoid making eye contact with these individuals...
...feel better. One night, as I walked out of Christy's, I hesitated because I knew the man was going to ask me for money, and I only had a couple of pennies and my pint of sorbet. I felt guilty and embarrassed, so I considered walking away to avoid his inquiry...
...council members who submitted a bill to Dean Lewis in good faith and offered our time and help to his decision-making process, we can only assume that he did not want to "see any good reason" why he should sign this bill, and thus took care to avoid meeting with us or considering the question in full. In vetoing the bill without expressing a real reason, Dean Lewis made a powerful statement about his lack of interest in supporting campus women's issues except in nominal ways that improve Harvard's image for fundraising purposes...
Another way to avoid U.S. controls is called "drop shipping," say Customs Service agents. An American company barred from exporting stun guns directly to a foreign country pays a producer in a third country with loose export controls to ship the foreign weapons with an American label slapped on them. The U.S. company then bills the customer at a marked-up price and pockets the profit. Customs agents also suspect that many distributors simply file phony export-declaration forms and ship directly to problem countries. Last December, Yuri I. Montgomery, an Olympia, Wash., exporter, was indicted on charges of sending...
After tomorrow's doubleheader against Princeton, Harvard moves on to Ithaca, N.Y. to take on Cornell in another two-game set. The Big Red, which finished near the bottom of the Ivies last season, going 7-13 in the league and 13-26 overall, look to avoid another season sweep at the hands of the Crimson. Cornell is clearly not a premier team, but Harvard's players understand that there is no such thing as a sure...