Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argues that a strong commitment to personal values can help avoid the type of disaster that beset the Nixon administration...
...more likely than most presidents to work behind the scenes with other presidents and members of Congress, and he believes that can be more effective than speeches," says provost, adding that he approves of Rudenstine's efforts to avoid becoming a "single-issue" president...
...press release also states that "this broad policy is meant to avoid any possible appearance of impropriety...
...never been a fan of judging people in their public lives for their private activities, and yet I cannot avoid being frustrated when I consider Reubens' fate in the context of those of other famous figures. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and actor Matthew Broderick each played an intimate and condemnable part in a causal chain that resulted in the death of a human being. Star of "Frasier" Kelsey Grammar has been arrested more times for drug charges than I care to count. None of these men has seen his career suffer...
...poker games between lieutenants and grunts. Today commanders face nightmare scenarios of officers using rank to extort sex, of favoritism and jealousy eating away at the chain of command and hard-won troop morale, of subordinates wondering if their officer sent them on a particularly dangerous mission to avoid assigning it to a lover. Very few courts-martial involve adultery alone: frequently it is coupled with fraternization...