Word: avoiding
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...famine here is more subtle than the sub-Saharan ones, where people starved to death because there was no food. There is still food here. Just not enough in the daily diet to avoid widespread malnutrition and an increasing number of fatal illnesses. People are surviving on just one-fifth of the calories required to maintain health. All food is rationed...
Desperate to avoid being frozen out, leading U.S. executives are taking matters into their own hands. "Most of the large hotel companies have already quietly established a relationship in Cuba or are at least working on doing so," says Michael Stein, a Miami-based lodging-industry consultant for Arthur Andersen...
...enough about the mail. This century, and this week, the coal mines are closed and the real places to avoid are New York holding cells and Texas pens--and policeman's bathrooms nationwide. Stay out of trouble for a full 150 minutes--and match the candlepower of Connery and Harris with McQueen and Hoffman with the 1973 prison epic Papillon. A good look at Guyana and you'll never jaywalk again. Still fidgety? Catch Paul Newman's two-spot in Cool Hand Luke alongside George Kennedy (who won an Oscar for the role) for cutting the heads off--what...
...will also develop its own hamburger stand--AJ's Burgers--to satisfy voiced student cravings and avoid inflexible franchising and licensing royalties...
Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the U.N.: "I appeal to all involved to avoid the use of bombs and violence and really get back to the negotiating table." (Avoid? As in: "I appeal to Mr. Cunanan to avoid murdering people...