Word: avoiding
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...Burlington, Iowa, grocer, Matsch, 66, was appointed to the federal bench by Richard Nixon in 1974, and has presided over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does...
...beginning, there was EGG--for Ethnicity, Geography and Gender, the three factors used by Clinton to select nominees. Those characteristics still count, but sheer desperation to avoid any hint of S--for Scandal--has nearly choked the process to a halt. Burned by an outspoken Joycelyn Elders and a bumbling Henry Foster, Clinton has yet to name a Surgeon General. The Administration is dawdling even on routine appointments such as the promotion of David Lipton from Treasury Assistant Secretary to Undersecretary...
Unfortunately, I based my preparation for this match, played two weeks ago in New York City, on the conventional wisdom of what would constitute good anticomputer strategy. Conventional wisdom is--or was until the end of this match--to avoid early confrontations, play a slow game, try to out-maneuver the machine, force positional mistakes, and then, when the climax comes, not lose your concentration and not make any tactical mistakes...
...chess programming. They claim they developed software that enabled them to change the style of the program in mid-match and the evaluation ability of the machine from game to game. This also is revolutionary, because any change, any tweak in the computer normally needs weeks of testing to avoid potential bugs...
...point: there is already a lot of mental disability in the workplace. The ADA's goal is to remove the stigma of talking about it and coping with it. "Ideally, if you are an employer and you try to use this guidance for problem solving, you are going to avoid litigation most of the time," says Gary Phelan, the co-chairman of the disability-rights committee of the National Employment Lawyer's Association...