Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Contrary to Morgan's assertion, Cardinal Health took every reasonable step to avoid the strike with Teamsters Local 42. The company even offered on three separate occasions to extend the contract, so that employees could continue to work and earn a paycheck while the negotiations continued. These are hardly the actions of a company determined to, in Morgan's words, "break the union." The union refused to consider these offers and chose to go out on strike...
...insurance industry doesn't help matters. In most of the world, IVF is covered by national health insurance. Private insurers in the U.S., by contrast, often refuse to pay for it. Since each attempt costs an average of nearly $8,000, patients often risk multiple births in order to avoid having to pay for a second visit. Eight states now mandate IVF coverage, but in most of the U.S., high-quality assisted reproduction is only for the well...
Shooting to kill is best done at close range, but stand at least three feet back to avoid getting blood spattered on your clothing. You'll want to use a silencer, which you can easily make from common hardware. And aim for the eye sockets; a shot anywhere else in the head might leave the victim alive. Such is the wisdom of Hit Man, a step-by-step guide to succeeding in the paid-killer trade. Author Rex Feral, a pen name that's ersatz Latin for "king of the wild animals," insists that this $10 murder-for-hire manual...
...federal drug agent in Peru; and a Marine Corps vet killed in the line of duty as a police officer. West himself granted 58 waivers, 42 of them to relatives of already buried veterans. After the Army released the names, Everett counseled caution. "I urge everyone," he said, "to avoid hasty conclusions...
...necessary for the townsfolk, who are stupid and sinful in more ordinary ways, to avoid being drawn into his vengeful scheming, to find a sweet hereafter in which they can at least partly heal. It is a young woman (Sarah Polley)--surely the daughter Stephens wishes he might have had--who opens them to that state of grace in this solemn, subtly structured, beautifully acted and ultimately hypnotic movie...