Word: avoiding
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...have pointed out this problem. Given her experience and professional expertise, she could have explained the difficulties with PBHA's thinking and articulation. By insisting on Dean Kidd's involvement in such matters, the College is not trying to control every outcome, but to be helpful in having PBHA avoid mistakes that are inevitable when inexperienced persons handle important matters, and that may have serious consequences for PBHA and for the University. By irresponsibly bypassing her oversight, PBHA has laid both itself and the University open to lawsuits by individuals and to investigations by state and federal agencies...
...their private talks, Lott has emphasized to Clinton that if they can join to make one tough decision on the CPI, they can avoid "a hundred tough decisions down the road." The pair already have an unlikely record of cooperation: last summer, shortly after Lott succeeded Bob Dole as Senate majority leader, he surprised both his G.O.P. colleagues and the White House by skillfully brokering deals to pass bills that, with Clinton's signature, reformed welfare, increased the minimum wage and made health insurance more portable for workers changing jobs. Those accomplishments helped ensure the re-election of both...
...conceive a child. Lott was an only child and, like Clinton, was treated as an adult from an early age. Both were called upon to mediate frequent arguments between their parents, though Lott's father, unlike Clinton's, was not physically abusive. Still, both men learned to avert conflict, avoid touchy subjects and try to keep everyone happy. Both also developed traits useful for counting votes. Says Lott: "I learned to watch people's body language, look in their eyes to see whether what you were hearing was what they were really saying...
...military, farm subsidies, rural public works projects and entitlement programs. The main federal activities he opposed were taxes and programs for the poor. When supply-side economics came along, it was a special godsend to Lott: a theology that encouraged tax cuts without spending cuts, a new way to avoid hard choices...
...didn't work. Inject those babies into your 401(k), and you'll never retire. And these aren't isolated cases. Viren Mehta, a biotech expert at Mehta and Isaly, keeps track of biotech bombs. He says there have been 14 major disasters this decade. But even if you avoid specific product failures, it isn't enough. Biotech stocks fly in swarms. The whole group gets clipped when a few failures surface. In the three years that ended in December 1994, the average biotech stock fell...