Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam Hussein seems to have decided he would rather be bombed than inspected. Or the Iraqi dictator may believe he is crafty enough to avoid both those fates. But of the two, U.N. weapons inspections have obviously damaged him much more since the Gulf War than the occasional pinpricks he has absorbed from U.S. cruise missiles. For six years Saddam and his officials have lied, threatened and concealed everything they could to keep the U.N. Special Commission from finding and destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction--nuclear, chemical and biological. He still has some of them stashed away...
...Being an educational institution, they must scrutinize what they're investing in and must avoid things that could be so controversial for such a large portion of the student body...
...penalty killing unit, however, held firm for the Crimson. Time expired as junior Claudia Asano skated in circles behind her own net to avoid the Minnesota attack...
...Supreme Court bans affirmative action altogether, every Governor will have to figure out how to avoid embarrassments like this fall's incoming class at UT-Austin's law school, which has just four black students (down from 31 last year) out of 475. As long as minorities fare worse than whites on SATs and ACTs, eliminating the tests will look like an easy--read cost-free and legal...
...over the years who've been arrested for shoplifting, handcuffed, hauled down to headquarters for boosting a set of barrettes, and I decided I did not want to end my career that way. The presumption of innocence is not strong in this country. And so I paid up--to avoid bringing shame to my family...