Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cavanaugh says she and her husband, Philip Gschwend, a professor of environmental organic chemistry at MIT, joke about winning the lottery so they could avoid the tedium of writing research grant proposals...
...culture in his best-selling mystery novels has won him the "Special Friend of the Dineh" award. But the name of the award is important: Hillerman is not of the Dineh, and in choosing a Navaho narrator, he enters a potential mine field the old adage is designed to avoid...
...avoid writing about the kachina religion because they have a theology and philosophy that requires secrecy," Hillerman says. "Knowledge of the uninitiated ruins the power." When faced with a scene in which a character would participate in the ceremony, Hillerman finds an outside narrator. That narrator "doesn't see hardly any of it because I don't want to be wrong." But he admits, "even then you make a mistake." Describing a time when he placed a ceremony outdoors instead of inside a hogan, he approaches it philosophically, accepting the purist's criticism...
...insisting on Dean Kidd's involvement in such matters, the College is not trying to control every out-come, but to be helpful in having PBHA avoid mistakes that are inevitable when inexperienced persons handle important matters," Lewis wrote...
...weekly radio address, each day is bringing new stories of si milar improprieties by Republicans as well. The party that raised Republicans who had raise $200 million more than the Democrats in the last election cycle has the Democrats on the griddle, but may not be able to avoid getting burned by the same inves tigative heat...