Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together and engage in constructive dialogue rather than go to war to resolve their differences. While the U.N. is far from perfect, it still plays an important role in the lives of millions. We would be paying a lot more if the U.N. was not around to help us avoid conflicts. --Sam Sternin, U.N. Day 1997 Organizing Committee member
...Slackers don't want [the Faculty] to see them sweat, and so they avoid contact with us at all," Epps says. "They'd be surprised to find that we have ways to avoid work...
Blacks must continue to lead the discussion the way they led the Civil Rights movement, Divguid said, adding that Clinton may have been advised to avoid addressing race by whites who see it as too divisive an issue...
...oppose anything that even slightly hints of dealing with or accommodating the Castro regime. They routinely compare Fidel Castro to Adolf Hitler, and liken the plight of exiles from Cuba to that of Jews who perished during the Holocaust. Moderate Cubans often practice self-censorship in order to avoid the consequences. In the past Estefan has generally kept a low profile. But she said that this time she felt compelled to speak out. "I understand the hardships that we from Cuba have experienced," she wrote. "But for this reason we must defend everyone's freedom, even if it means personal...
...Well, they're just following the Lone Star State, the nation's execution capital, which so far this year has put to death 132 inmates. Once, most executions took place at midnight, the better to avoid the crowds that congregated at daylight hangings. But with Texas' hectic killing schedule, a lot of folks were forced to miss a lot of sleep, so in 1995 the Texas department of criminal justice moved the time to the dinner hour, 6 p.m. Prison officials got to go to bed early, and judges did not have to be wakened with last-minute appeals...