Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although hubs have failed in the past, Osterberg said installing a backup system is very expensive and not a feasible option to avoid similar problems in the future...
Others who avoid this blame game fall into a trap that is just as insidious--the trap of self-redeeming racial guilt. They believe that supporting affirmative action, ethnic studies and a multicultural student center automatically makes them "good people." They believe that speaking out in favor of whatever they think students of other backgrounds want will absolve them from taking any other actions to improve ethnic relations on this campus. They believe that rhetoric is as strong as action. They believe that by feeling as guilty as possible for as long as possible, we will somehow arrive...
...made a couple of appearances at the Kremlin but they served only to underscore the harsh fact that Yeltsin's primary task these days is simply to keep himself upright and ticking. If he can manage that, the Kremlin may be able to stave off an early election and avoid succumbing to the impulse to tamper with an already flawed constitution...
...photographer and Madalyn's son Jon Murray and granddaughter Robin Murray-O'Hair, from whom Madalyn was inseparable. "She took the ceremony very seriously," says Kerns. In Texas justices of the peace are likely to slip a "God" or even a "Jesus" into an otherwise civil service; to avoid such sabotage, O'Hair had obtained certification to perform marriages. She now pronounced the couple man and wife. It was a lovely moment, Kerns recalls, though, inevitably, he was nipped by one of O'Hair's several ill-tempered little dogs. Afterward, he says, "there was music and champagne...
...making such a loan, and White House spokesman Mike McCurry says the President stands by his testimony. Why did the Arkansas businessman recant and open himself up to perjury charges? According to ex-wife Susan, who is in jail for refusing to testify on Whitewater, he is lying to avoid an 84-year prison term. But McDougal, who has a history of mental illness and is facing pressure from prosecutors, is far from the ideal witness. "If I were Kenneth Starr, I wouldn't be happy to rely on McDougal," TIME's Jeff McAllister says. "He has changed his story...