Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...symptomatic AIDS is de facto a psychiatric patient, because you'd have to be insane not to take your medications regularly. This is just bad on-the-wards black humor, but behind it lies the edgier truth that the new medications must be taken with such religious scrupulosity to avoid the development of a resistant virus that people who are deemed to be potentially non-compliant are not even offered them, and we're all wondering if maybe this is part of the reason the death rate has gone down 28 percent in white, mainly gay men but only...
...overriding belief of the President's group--and this is true of nearly all relevant institutions--is that virtually any market decline would be tolerable so long as it was orderly. The ability to take all calls and get all trades done is paramount. It helps avoid panic, which leads to irrational selling and a stock-market death spin. Says William Johnston, president of the N.Y.S.E.: "We see ourselves as a utility. Our job is to supply enough power at peak times to keep every light burning." Hence the Big Board's vast trading capacity, built at a cost...
...meant to defend the minivan, but I see I've only maligned the sport-ute. It's hard to avoid. A car, says the cliche, is indelibly an extension of self. With minivans the extension is straightforward and uncomplicated--a means of transportation for housewives and family men (family persons?). For the upper-middle-class American man circa 1997, the cliche is undone. The sport-utility vehicle is not an expression but a denial--a carapace, a hard shell concealing the soft center within...
...national origin is something of a biographical crux: Is he Irish or English? Everyone wants to know. "It's not that I don't consider myself an Irish writer," says McDonagh, whose parents are Irish, and who spent vacations with family near Galway. "I just try to avoid any questions of nationality or nationalism. I've always felt kind of in between. I'm more of a London boy than anything else, but you can't help having those Irish leanings...
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