Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said she had entered the bathroom 15 minutes earlier, heard a person showering and smelled what she described as "a repulsive odor." She left immediately to avoid the stench and returned...
...First, I think everybody in the class is concerned about [Fried's] well being," said second-year student Elizabeth A. Roff. "But second, people are saying what a hassle it has been that the registrar didn't find a way [to avoid moving the class time...
...kind of pullback. The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 hasn't suffered even a 10% decline in seven years, two times the second longest such period. A lot of good things are happening in the U.S. economy, including low inflation and rising profits. But even if U.S. stocks can avoid a tumble, they certainly cannot keep doubling every three years, as they recently did. And even compared with the U.S. market's incredible run, a handful of other markets did better...
That may be true, but skeptics are worried that the company is expanding so fast into so many unrelated fields that it could become increasingly difficult to manage. To avoid becoming a victim of its own success, SIHL has begun hiring executives from Merrill Lynch, Credit Lyonnais and other major foreign companies--capitalists at the service of communist- owned capitalism. --Reported by Lynne Curry/Hong Kong...
...many teachers, this new focus is welcome. The forces driving students to distraction have never been stronger. Says Goleman: "If you are a kid who wants to avoid depression or violence and not drop out, academic topics will have nothing to do with it." Marylu Simon, school superintendent in Highland Park, N.J., says many children arrive at school "simply angry from some situation that has happened at home. It affects their ability to come into the school, sit down at their desk and be ready to learn...