Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deaths is the red Cherokee. Nonetheless, reporters located his mother, MaryAnn, in a central Illinois town and learned a little about his true identity. The Cunanans were once wealthy, as Andrew used to brag, but MaryAnn claims that in 1988 his father Modesto, a stockbroker, fled the country to avoid arrest on charges of misappropriating funds. MaryAnn Cunanan now gets food stamps. Before she stopped talking to the media, she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "No matter what he's done, he's my flesh and blood. I can't believe he could be a cold-blooded killer." She added...
...being placed on stage right and partially obscured by the sofa. When Tom, in a fit of anger, hurled his coast at his mother, instead of knocking over the glass ornaments (as in the original script), it hit Laura herself. Perhaps the director was making a conscious decision to avoid too heavy-handed and obvious a use of the symbolism, but it is worth remembering that the glass menagerie is both the title and the central symbol of the play, and figures prominently in the interchange between Laura...
...paradox useful to all who are stricken with my favorite disease: acute procrastination. After checking my e-mail every 30 seconds for an hour, popping microwave popcorn, running Yahoo searches to complete my collection of start-up sounds from "The Princess Bride" and, of course, taking naps--all to avoid studying for exams--I needed a new way to procrastinate...
...absolute last resort was going to the gym, but I found, surprisingly, that working out at the MAC takes away all subsequent desire to avoid work...
Fuad Al-Omar, vice president of finance for the Islamic Development Bank, described the Islamic investment process by which investors avoid firms that profit from forbidden activities, such as interest, gambling and alcohol, as well as firms with a great deal of debt, and seek "cleansing" through giving some types of income to charity...