Word: avoiding
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Only then will we avoid the scandal-a-day fiasco to which the 1996 Democratic fund-raising machine is currently subjecting us. As Michael Kinsley '73, who is a former Crimson executive, has repeatedly noted, the scandal has little to do with illegal behavior...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: In a sign of warming relations is Northern Ireland, key group of Protestants agreed not to stage a march through a Catholic neighborhood. The Apprentice Boys Order, whose marches last year incited several days of Catholic violence, announced that they would avoid Lower Ormeau Road during its Easter Monday parade. The announcement had a strong element of spin: "Assuming the Royal Ulster Constabulary will not allow us to parade our traditional route on Easter Monday, especially with the escalation of violence at the present time, it would be wrong of us to provide another excuse for confrontation...
Monica Dean, director of the program's national business school network, says the organization is trying to avoid what she says may be perceived as "an issue of ego" with business school students...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: American Airlines and its pilots' union reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Wednesday that is vague in the fine points but clear in its determination to avoid a crippling shutdown that would affect 20 percent of the nation's travelers. The contract, negotiated in seclusion on Orcas Island, Washington, will be presented to the union's board on Friday for approval. Captain Michael Cronin, the pilot's chief of legislative affairs, declined to give details of the agreement, saying, "We want our board of directors to hear it from negotiators and not from the press...
...journey. Flint will use global positioning satellite technology to pinpoint her location, VHF radio communications to expedite landings and take-offs and an in-cabin computer to communicate via e-mail with school children following her flight on the Internet. Other than a slight detour over northern Africa to avoid political unrest in Sudan, Finch's flight route will follow precisely the path taken by Earhart. Waving breezily to reporters, Finch says she has no jitters about her 29,000 mile flight. The original Earhart flight ended in disaster after 22,000 miles when Earhart, her navigator and plane vanished...