Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I've found it possible to avoid TV, I've done just that. I've learned to focus on newspapers, magazines and the internet-far more effective sources of information than the tube on just about anything-and movies and books-the best of which are far more imaginative and entertaining than almost anything television has to offer...
...action--maybe even hyperaction. Should you get into a car wreck on Highway 50 as it passes through town, two local hospitals can send ambulances to compete for your business. If you are sufficiently alert, you can choose between Dunn Memorial Hospital and Bedford Regional Medical Center. To avoid unseemly tugs of war, the city requires that the hospitals alternate pickups of victims not well enough to state a preference. And the police are on hand to sort things out. "They'll back off when it's not their turn," Bedford chief of police Bill Haverly says matter-of-factly...
...likely to be issued within two weeks. The exhaustive report was delayed when Starr's team grew concerned over allegations of sloppy work at the FBI lab. The Foster investigation wasn't one of the cases compromised, but Starr's team took extra pains in an effort to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists who still don't believe Foster killed himself...
...instruction. To prevent Sojourner from blundering into a chasm or over a cliff, engineers designed it to move no faster than 1.3 ft. per minute. Onboard gyroscopes and lasers will help it feel for dangers the camera might have missed. If Sojourner spots an obstacle, it will try to avoid it or simply stop. "We'll give it a point to go to and an amount of time to get there," says Cooper. "If it doesn't, we'll find out what the problem...
...continue to demonstrate gently in order to educate the public about the need to preserve and protect the rights they enjoy. Since dissent is a fact of life in Hong Kong, the incoming government has little choice but to let it continue. Tung has declared publicly that he will avoid making martyrs of those who protest before some 8,000 journalists staked out on handover night. The Chief Executive and his Beijing superiors are well aware that televised images of repression in the streets of Hong Kong would deal a lethal blow to that ephemeral commodity known as confidence...