Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neil J. Donovan, the director of community programs at Jamaica Plain's Shattuck Shelter, said he feels that most panhandlers already avoid aggressive solicitation...
...Cross and Blue Shield and Hubert H. ("Skip") Humphrey, the state's attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial candidate. With jury selection scheduled to start this week, Humphrey has 33 million pages of industry papers that he says provide not just a smoking gun but "a howitzer" against tobacco. To avoid a long and potentially embarrassing trial in Texas, cigarette makers opted last week for a $15 billion settlement of a lawsuit there. If a judge approves it, the companies will pay the state that much over 25 years to compensate for health-care costs and to fund antismoking programs. After...
...restore confidence in his own country's cratering economy. Hashimoto delivered a State of the Union parliamentary address that was unique in its brevity and laserlike in its focus on emergency measures to stimulate growth and reinforce sagging financial institutions. "It is my unwavering determination," he declared, "to avoid at all costs a worldwide financial or economic panic originating in Japan." The Japanese financial markets gagged on that plea for confidence, plunging to their lowest levels in more than two years. Hashimoto's public-approval rating wasn't far behind. To make matters worse, the powerful Ministry of Finance widened...
...connection with the Advocate we shall avoid all quarreling. There is no reason why we should not be as courteous in our public conversation, when all the world may hear, as on more private occasions...
...McCurry's job is still protecting Clinton, and a press secretary cannot be above doing a little foot-dragging. "McCurry's excuse for the President's silence so far is that they need time to get their act together, to avoid the missteps with records that occurred with the campaign records," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. The problem is if that's McCurry's story, it's not a very good one. "This is not a records-intense matter," says Branegan. "Why does the President have to be so careful if he didn't do anything wrong...