Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Avoid chain letters and spam. Chain letters demand that you forward them to some number of people, threatening horrendous consequences...
...Given the fears, he should have gone out of his way" to avoid any suggestion of nepotism, says Marc Falcoff, a Latin American scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, who has just written a book on Panama. "Nothing would have given the international community more confidence...
Lacking answers, the summit wound down with a panel of actual children--a cute if predictable stunt. Onstage with their parents and teachers before a ballroom full of strange, faceless adults, the kids readily assured us that they do all they can to avoid naughty material on the Net. They were perhaps a bit more credible when talking about the genuine fun you can have online--a notion that may have escaped many of their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing...
...know who they are. They're the professor who can't get enough of himself, the girl in your class who never shuts up, the person from across the hall who always comes in to say hello and never seems to leave. On good days, we avoid them. On bad days, we silently curse the day of their birth. But is it at all possible that we are not giving them the benefit of the doubt...
Like the old adage that you never want to watch sausage or laws being made--they both can give you indigestion--I can understand why people have such little tolerance for politics. But unlike sausage, which you can avoid, laws, especially environmental laws with their messy pottage of political ingredients, are part of everyone's diet. People who choose to look the other way will not avoid the consequences of politics and they might end up with some ugly stuff on their plates...