Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles cautioned the council in his letter to "avoid the impulsive enjoyment of a boom that will only produce a bust in future years...
Kotlikoff said this pay-as-you go system must be reformed in order to avoid a budget crisis in the future...
...Russia - Iraq still owes Russia billions of dollars for weapons and is eager to cut huge oil deals with the former Soviet patron. Not surprisingly, it's leading the diplomatic effort to avoid any military showdown and is eager to see the sanctions lifted...
...midst of last week's public carnage, it's hard to imagine, but there were those who could see a strategy forming. Clinton will never resign, they insist; he will fight every inch to avoid becoming the second President in history to resign in disgrace, as opposed to one of several tarnished by sexual scandals that future historians might just decide to ignore. He will try to change the subject, with lots of purposeful activity, outlined in the State of the Union, a new balanced budget, a response to Saddam Hussein. Let people get used to some further degradation...
...everyone has learned that a Clinton denial must be decoded. The man who once said he had "never broken the laws of my country" when answering questions about his marijuana inhaling (he was at Oxford at the time), and who claimed to have "caused pain in my marriage" to avoid having to use the singular or plural when discussing his love affairs, now faces an audience no longer naive about presidential double-talk. Thus when Clinton sat down with Jim Lehrer on Wednesday afternoon and repeated, in heavily lawyered cadences, that "I didn't ask anybody not to tell...