Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Referring to the war that Memorial Church commemorates, the Archbishop cautioned the audience to avoid worship of tyrants such as Hitler...
...difficulty of cleaning Yale's curved, garret and bay windows often requires scaffolding. Partly because of the heroic efforts window-cleaning requires, the New Haven university slashed the frequency of its window-cleanings, which usually occur during the summer when few students are on-campus to avoid disruptions...
...teams in charge of each of GM's brands are being granted almost unheard-of powers of autonomy and responsibility, making marketing and budget choices that are unprecedented within GM. These zealots insist that only by focusing relentlessly on customer needs (as opposed to production requirements, say) can GM avoid the mistakes of the past...
...eyes--"everyone tried to trap me into saying I was gay. And I learned every way to dodge that. Or if they just blatantly asked me, I would say I don't talk about my personal life. I mean, I really tried to figure out every way to avoid answering that question for as long as I could...
...national Democratic Party in early '96. That helped win the attention of then deputy White House chief of staff Harold Ickes, whom they pressed to get the Interior Department to back their casino proposal. Actually, the tribe gave the President's party almost four times that much. But to avoid further angering Engler, who was already furious about their support for Michigan Democrats in 1994, they routed most of it to state Democratic parties across the country, where Engler would be unlikely to see it. At the same time, they made an $80,000 donation to Engler's Michigan G.O.P...