Word: avoiding
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Since they didn't get the job done the night before, the Harvard players had a chance to redeem themselves and at least avoid last place in the consolation game against their Boston rivals...
...Which leaves the defense with little wriggle room. Their last best chance to avoid the death penalty may lie in a kind of Catch-22 that defense experts have already addressed: After the prosecution rejected Kaczynski's offer of a guilty plea, his only way to beat the rap is with a mental-defect defense. Who, then, but a crazy man would insist that he's sane...
...only thing that astonished more than the size of Feeney's largesse was his determination to keep it hidden. To avoid U.S. tax-disclosure requirements, Feeney incorporated his foundations in Bermuda and sought no tax deductions. For years Forbes magazine listed him as one of the 400 richest Americans, even though he has reportedly bled his wealth of all but $5 million; Feeney abhors the list, but he let the fiction persist rather than betray his charity. Early in the year, a lawsuit over the sale by his foundation of its stake in DFS threatened to expose the scope...
...Diana shared with many people the fond if naive belief that the perfectibility of the family--making it stable, firm, happy--would help save humankind. Her father and mother had failed miserably at family. She did not intend to. But she stumbled into the very nightmare she sought to avoid and became the spectacular mirror for other people's disappointments: the most splendid of cautionary tales. In the monumental ruin of Diana's life, people saw the limits of their own aspirations...
WILLIAM WELD Some people can't avoid fighting with Jesse Helms. This guy quit a good job to provoke...